Related article: dition was to the effect that where any prize is added the winner will be liable to a penalty for the full amount. LlYerpool. — The Autumn Cup is an event which gets a good deal more talked about than do other races of greater value, the end of the season being near, and there being little else in view. Round about Liverpool itself little else is talked about for days than the ** coop " and its probable winner. In four days we can get through a good deal of racing, and in autumn and spring it is well diversified at Liverpool by means of steeplechases and hurdle races. Travelling by rail to Aintree, the attendance seemed likely to be small, but it became apparent that the new. electric tram was what was the matter. On the second day we began with a sur- prise, Fosco, whose day one prematurely thought to be over, showing something very much like his old form, and winning the Stewards* Plate quite easily. His weight had been dropped ma- terially, it being i4lbs. less than when he ran in the same race last year, so here was another instance of misplaced leniency. The Grand Sefton Steeplechase is regarded as a first rehearsal for the Grand National, and last year it was won by Hidden Mys- tery, whom even now people speak of as the prospective winner in March next. The class was not quite up to last year's mark, Cathal being top weight, vice Drogheda. The betting in the case of Bloomer was funny, for he opened favourite, but drifted away to 8 to I at the start, a much longer price being on offer when the horses were on their way. Barsac was apparently the choice between the two, and one heard tales of Bloomer having done no work, and being fat in conse- quence. For a fat, unfit animal he ran remarkably fast, and one awaits with interest to see what he will do when really wound up. Hidden Repaglinide Tablets Mystery will have to put his best leg foremost, evidently. Barsac ran Buy Repaglinide well enough, but Bloomer was pulling over him in the straight, and won easily. On the third day Fosco came out with 10 lbs. extra on his back, and won the Croxteth Plate rather more easily than he won the day before, so now there could be no doubt about his return to form. Kemp- ton Cannon, by the way, was the jockey on each occasion. He was inaugurating his accession to the position of first jockey to Mr. 444 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [Dbckmbu Leopold de Rothschild, T. Loates having retired from the profession. Mr. de Rothschild could not have made a better choice, and all I wish him and his jockey is that these two successes form an augury of what is to come. The Cup provided a good race, and it was won by the bottom- weight ; and why should not bottom- weights win in their turn ? It is of no avail now to say that Japonica would have won but for swerving. She probably swerved from distress, and had Fabulist got away better he would have won more easily. Perhaps the feature of the race was the flight over the rails taken by Halsey oflf the back of Sirenia by conse- quence of a bump with Aqua- scutum, when they were well in the straight. It was a case of trying for the rails, Sirenia on the inside, and, from the way Halsey was thrown, the collision must have been a severe one. Falls on the flat were frequent at this meeting. On the second day Otto Madden's mount fell, and Madden rode no more. On Friday, in the Croxteth Plate, the alarming spec- tacle was seen of McNaughton flying off the back of Nippon amidst the field of horses, and by the most merciful chance Filassier, who was in his wake, contrived to avoid him. Later on J. Reiff got a fall. The Liverpool Repaglinide Metabolite manage- ment have thoughtfully provided a horse ambulance, i.e., an ambu- lance drawn by a horse. If it were kept somewhere up the course, instead of in the paddock, it would arrive more expeditiously on the scene. Fortunately none of the falls resulted in very serious injury to the jockeys, but Sirenia got a nasty knock on the frontal bone. Liverpool seems destined to be a troublous meeting for Lester Reif!. Last year the stewards fined him £^o for being late at the post ; this year they had him before them (under what rule is not apparent) to ask him why he did not beat Gerolstein at Don- caster two months previously on The Scotchman XL, since he was able to do so at the same weights at Liverpool. Naturally enough, Reiff could not explain why two horses, one a three-year-old, the other a five-year-old, did not run the same animals at an interval of two months, under entirely dif- ferent conditions of going, to say nothing of the furlong difference in the distance. The explanation was not deemed satisfactory, so the puzzle was made over to the Stewards of the Jockey Club for unravelment. They, of course, found no difficulty in under- standing the different running, and Reiff went on with his riding at Derby. Derby* — When we remember what we have from time to time suffered from rain and mist at Derby, where, last year, fog cut short the November meeting by two races, we were very thankfiil for such fine weather as was vouchsafed. In a hunting district who minds a little rain and, just to show their contempt for it. Lord Harrington and a contingent in pink went out with the hounds on Saturday morning. The gloom which the war losses spread over the earlier meetings of the year had somewhat evaporated and large house parties at Chatswortb and elsewhere caused the County Stand and Paddock to look some- thing like their old selves. It was also quite Derby November form to see two fields of twenty-five each, and others of twenty-two, twenty-one and twenty, respec- tively, the total number of runners for the eighteen races being 273 — an average of over fifteen per race. This equals the wonderful figures 1900.] " OUR VAN.' 445 made by Warwick and Manchester combined in 1898. Quality was not too prominent, save in the Cup in which race Innocence, leni-