Related article: refer to the Association as con- stituted last year, therefore the book is not up to date. The map showing the divisions into which Great Britain is divided for the Tournament purposes is a commendable feature. Particulars of the committees, subscriptions and colours of the various provin- cial clubs aie given, and Irish polo clubs receive their meed of atten- tion. We must add that the book contains a little that does not relate to the game, and which- might without disadvantage have been omitted. It was wise to include fairs whereat ponies are sold, but the purpose of giving dates and * "Thomas's Polo Diary and Sporting Calendar for Z900." (Thomas & Sons, 33, Brook^ Street, GrosvenoT Square, W.) sites of fairs for hunters, hacks and dray-horses is not apparent. Game seasons, a list of otter- hound packs and racing fixtures, &c., might well have been spared. The Diary in the earlier part of the book contains mention of such meetings and events as produce any effect upon Buy Diclofenac Potassium polo, ajid a " pocket diary " should not be swelled in bulk by irrelevant mat- ter. As already remarked, the general plan of this little book is excellent, and it will undoubtedly find its public waiting. The next annual edition will, we doubt not, show improvement in the few shortcomings we have indicated. Keep to polo is our advice. The diary is very neatly and well got up. The doings of Mr. Lobb * are rather too extravagant to be amusing : the purest farce should not quite ignore the boimds of probability, or it misses its mark. Mr. Lobbs' adventures are amus- ing when they come within the limits of the possible, but when, in course of his mission to make as many kinds of fool of himself as he can, he goes out partridge shooting with a borrowed rifle and ball cartridge, one feels that humour is strained past breaking point. There are some very read- able pages in the book, but as a whole the fun is rather too much of the grinning-through-a-horse- coUar type. * " The Wonderful Career of Ebcneier Lobb. Edited by Allen Upward. (Hurst & Blackett) i9oa] 131 "Our Van." Between Asoot and New- market. — After Ascot there is always a lull in racing that can be felt. There is plenty of sport in progress, but little of a nature to rouse up any enthusiasm. Society butterflies are busy sipping sweets from other flowers than those of the racecourse, and the faithful regular army is depended upon to keep things going. Two days at Sandown Park re- vived us a little, and in the Sand- ringbam Foal Stakes for three- year-olds Old Buck II. at last scored for Lord William Beres- ford in a race that was worth waiting for, it being a ;f2,ooo stake. But the event had no in- teresting features, and the same may be said of the British Do- minion two-year-old race of the second day, which Star Shoot won. In the course of a selling race Rigby got out of the course, cutting ofl* a comer, but raced on when he regained the proper track. For this he was flned £1^. A few days later, at Lewes, he was fined another ;^2o, this time in company with five others. The jockeys gave so much trouble in the Castle Plate of five furlongs that Mr. Coventry, that most pa- tient of starters, exercised his dis- cretionary alternative and used the machine, reporting half-a- dozen jockeys on his return to the weighing-room, and they were fined £20 each. If you look at your McCall, you will see the words " perfect going '* employed in connection with Lewes, but all attempts to describe the going at Brighton are abandoned. There is wisdom in this. Why the Brighton meetings do not take place on the splendid Lewes course is a thing not to be ex- plained by what appears on the surface. The note ** Fireguard fell," which does appear in McCall in connection with the Brighton Meeting, is what one would expect from this course. At Gosforth Park the North- country sportsman assembled in his customary volume for the three days Newcastle Meeting. There is no need to hammer away at the lessened importance of the North- umberland Plate. It is a process that can be, and is, indulged in in connection with so many old-time races, and very often the falling ofl* is found to be chiefly in the direction of ante-post betting — a proceeding which has very small interest to the ten thousand pit- men frequenters of the meeting. For them the race is a tangible event enough, as also is the North Derby, not too happily called, for, though it is a race for three-year- olds over a mile and a half course, the conditions make it very much of a handicap. In the present in- stance the weights varied from 9st. 71b. to 8st. 41b., and Duck Gun, who carried the lighter weight, won. Lumley Moor, who was carrying gst. ylb., was backed like a certainty, but had nothing to do with the finish. Joe Chamberlain won the Northum- berland Plate with gib. from Inno- cence for the year, and, though he was not backed to the extent he was at Manchester, this was no more than should have been ex- pected of him after his second to La Roche in the Manchester Cup. Another placed one at Manches- ter, Orchid, won here, the race being the Seaton Generic Diclofenac Potassium Delaval Plate, which was rightly regarded as a certainty for this Orme colt, on whom odds were laid. Things went as merrily as is their wont at the Curragh, so'^ 132 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [August extra life being introduced by the visit of the latest plunger from England, whose influence was more than once felt in the betting ring. Ireland's stand - by sire Gallinule supplied the winner of the Irish Derby in Gallenaria, a filly out of Pierina, whom Mr. Lushington rode to victory. When are we to see a gentleman rider on the back of a winner of the Epsom Derby ? At Hurst Park Star Shoot won a second good race in the Foal Plate, and in the Duchess of York