Show the gallop and the trot the races are the absorbing local event of the week before the end of the meeting wo we shall probably be overrun with guests from abroad abroad let them come and enjoy themselves cleveland has lias ample accommodation mod mo dation aion alon for all her outside friends americans have acquired a settled appetite for the turf it is easy to trace this taste to their english de do ewt scent it is the english blood in 0 oct veins which makes us all take BO so much delight in choice horse especially vilen they are arc speeded upon the course it has been reserved for the americans however to vary the attractions of the turf by introducing a neyr new galt gait galt gait and con se a new kin kind rind of contest the trotting horm horse is purely a product of the new world Vor ld here the idea first occurred to develop the trot as a fast gait here the trotter made his debut asa as a racer and cormany for many years it was only here that lie could be seen on the track within a few years yeary trotters have been introduced into england to some extent but the running races so entirely fili fill the public eye that the importation attracts little attention latterly the taste for the running race lias has been undergoing a revival in this country in the casts east cast for the tho past two or three seasons the racer seems to have supplanted the trotter in popularity longfellow harry bassett tom bowling and helmbold created a turi turf sensation such as we had not had for yeats years perhaps not since tiie tho great fashion race the parties to which were the north and south of iong long years ago the sport of horse racing is Ls of great antiquity dati dating ng from the early greeks and romans komans in more modern times the english have been the greatest lovers of it and since the time of james I 1 the nicest care has been bestowed upon the breeding of the animals employed in it charles I 1 and charles 11 II were patrons of the turf turin so were william III ill and queen ann the modern english racer is tal tai lerand gallerand taller and less stout than uie the earlier racer but we do not know that he has gained much in speed flying childers chliders cuil Guil ders dens bred fired in 1715 by the duke 0 of f devonshire on one occasion at newmarket ran three miles and a half in six minutes and forty seconds carry caTry carrying ig nine stone there Is 19 even eve n a tra tradition that he once ran a mile in a minute the pictures of fly flying in i childers represent a rather short bodied thickset thick set hor hon horse hore e as compared with modem bred horses iole loio more 1010 of a hunter than a racer if anything there is more pleasure I 1 in n witnessing wit witnessing nessin the perform performances anc ane es of a running livorse horse this is because the tile racer exercises his natural gait while the trotters gait as seen on the turf is an artificial one we are glad that our club managers recognize the tile growing taste for running racing and make ample arrangements for gratifying it cleveland plair flain deater dealer |