The winning post and saddling paddock, hacked up by a grand stand, were on the upper side of the ground, wiience an excel lent viiw of each race was obtained. To the right of the stand was a refreshment bouth, together with the usual number of nut stalls, doodlem bucks, and wheels of fortune; whils: on the left was collected an innumer able number of traps, of every make and description, which proved excellent substi tutes for the grind stand, to the evident loss of Messrs. I'etrie and Shaw, who had erected that structure, and who were thereby con siderable losers by the compaction. The centre of the course hid also its occupants in the persons of some scores of horsemen, who, in the intervals between the events on the card, would occasionally have an impromptu race of their own by way of keeping the sport alive. The district being purely an agricultural one, and consequently possessing proclivities for anything tending to test thi relative merits of horses, the event had been looked forward t > with con siderable interest, and the day boin* fine, with a gentle sea breeze to temper the other wise oppressive heat, the attendance on the ground was \ery great, and would have done credit to some of the greater meets o£ the kind in the province. The out-lying districts were also well represented, which added to the profit of Mr. Paj;et, who presided, over the refreshment booth, and the proprietors of the sporting accessories previously mentioned. The events on the card numerous, little

time elapsed between eacli race, and the pro ceedings once opened, the sport was kept up until the Scurry brought the races to a ter mination just as dusk was dpsing in. Throughout the day everyone seemed to be influenced by the best of good feeling, and beyond one or two who would persist in riding along the course during the finish of a race, no cause wa9 given by any of the vast crowd on the ground for complaint, and with the exception of one acciilent to the rider of Pre-emptive Hight, there were m casualties. '! he scales were under the supervision of Mr. Milne, who discharged his duties most expeditiously and satisfactorily ; a* also did Cant. Weekes as starter and clerk of the course, and Mr. C. K. 