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Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis Tournament, Open Doubles Obam. pionship Final, Stand Court, 415 p.m. S. A. and H. D. Rumjahn v. E. C Fincher and E. Goldman.

Concert and Dramatic Entertain mans, Kowkon Union Church Ball,

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COME WITH ME TO

NEWMARKET

WHERE 1.200 HORSES ARE IN TRAINING.

WHAT I SAW AT FAMOUS STABLES.

BY HOWARD SPRING,

Newmarket is little more than one long, old-fashioned street set upon the downs that overlap the boundaries of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. In that street you will find everything that appertains to hores Central Theatre: Unexpected racing-bridles and bits and sad Father."

dloe, whips and stirrups, boots and horse-clothing, breaches, spa and leggings. Through the most probable windows you glimpse up time-dimmed walls prints and gravings, photographs and of haintings of homes, jockeys, train ers whose names were nationaf Possessions in days long gone by,

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King's Theatre: Palmy Daya"

વ Queen's Theatre: Get Rich- Quick. Wallingford,”

Star Theatre: Lady's Moral." World Theatro:"Eu Chu Kuen Sing (Chinese fim).

Majestic Theatre: "All Quiet on the Western Front."

roar, past the Derby winning-post at Epsom. The winner of the Onka might be fifty yards to my right. the winner of the St. Leger Afty yards to my left. It fascinated mo to know that within the fox Bores about me wore 1,900 horses in train. ing. It fasinated me.

when my companion pointed down a dark entry and said," Solaria's stable is down there." Solario t The. 8100,000 horse! That was the sum the Aga Khan offered for Solario, and it was, refused.

We turned down one of those quiet by roads, pushed open a gatë, Above the unpretentious, quarbers and came of the Jockey Club eims lift theirFrank Butters. There are sixty to the house of "Mr. Ten Dances at King's Restaurant branches to the sky, and in that and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner twiggy fastness the rocks are bus

horees in that famous tminer's Daness at Peninsula Hotel, Hong as they were when Pretty Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant. used to walk along this road, trdn European Mails-Izward Peter Gilpin's stables as Ola Eurupo vin Siberia (General Mathaven, on the eastward outskirts of

the town. zinger); Outward; Europe via Siberia (Pres. Hoover) 4.30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY.

(April 13.)

keeping, and, this being the hour of evening stables, he invited ue to make the rounds with him.

Again I was fascinated and by two things. One was the serupu lous attention to the details of alana încas Every horse-bo had he cleanliness of a hospital and det missed the sense of something thal and oppressigo. It was a

compound smell of hay and horse healthy-amelling, jolly cleanliness

that pukes as good a smell as any I know.

THE SPORT OF KINGS. Long before that Newmarket horse racing wers one things Jarge 1. had i lodge here; und Uffiétés Mestings: China Entertainment who sits his horse 10 well at the and Land Investment Co., Ltd. 12 top of Whitehall, often sat à horse noon; Hong Kong Football Council, on the springy cushion of the Now 4.20 p.m., Member of Committee of market downs. It was he who in- Empire Day Observance; R.A.O.B.stituted the first cup race here, and Club, & p.m.

Charles II. went to the length

Whist Drives at Seamen's In-building a palace at Newmarket, stitute and Kowloon Dock, 9 p.m. thup making his gay contribution to the saying that borse-racing is the Hockay: Club 2. Borderers, sport of kinra. U.S.R.C. ground, 5.30 p.m.

Schneider Trio. Recital at Holana May Institute, 8.20 p..

King's Theatro: "Palmy Days." Contral Theatre: East of

Borneo.""

The past spreads ita buro at Now. market, but the present, too, has its fascination. At night, when the rooks were quiet and the branches of the clms were carved 'in chony against a sky suffused by a fim of frozen silver. I walked down that main street, held in thrall by the Queen's Theatre: "Beau Ideal."

quiet lanes and by-ways that bro. h from it righs and loft: Dark World Theatre: "Ku Chu Kuenas, night, silent as the grase but Sing" (Chinese ilm),

each one lending to A training, stable, and in those stables were miany of the horses, who hold the yet unfolded history of this year's flat ruson.

Star Theatre: Lady's Moral." Tea Dances nt King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dancte at Hong Kong Hotel, Penin- sula Hotel and King's Restaurant,

Europena Mail:-Outward: Europe via Suez (Patroclus) 10.30- a.m. Europe via Suez (Gaags) 4.30

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HORSES THAT MAY MAKE

HISTORY.

It fascinated me, I say: Along quiet box, might be the horse who any of the planes, in this warm and

would rush, to a myriad throated

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Above cach horse's head was his name on a plato. And what names there were Firdaussi, the Aga Khan's hope for the Desby; Ut Majeur, who won the Counrewitch; Pomme d'Api, a probable sandi date for the Ascot Cup. To each smooth muzzle Mr. Buttere held a seductive carrot; down each fine log he ran an expert hand; to each satin flank he gave, in leaving, an approving amack,

A salt-lick was on each 'wall: the straw of the door was neatly plait- ed at its edge that noné might un- tidily wander. I noticed that if our fect took a straw from the box, to the yard an attendant stable-boy would retrieve it and put it back where it belonged. "

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ALL THEIR LIFE BEFORE.

THEM

So we went from box to box to see those sixty horses-maidena with life before them, horses that have won their laurels and know stable-boy with gentle hiss polish- the roar of the Bing. In each box

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