We are delighted to chronicle the fact that the Government
have at last come to the decision to put a atop to racing. All race-meetings are to be discontinued except those at New- market, on the ground, we presume, that Newmarket is the racecourse upon which the business of horse-breeding depends. The suspension of racing should enable a very large number of men now engaged in the training stables, and who are good riders and good horse-masters, to enlist in the cavalry and horse artillery. When at the end of February we advocated the closing of the racecourses we felt absolutely certain that they would ultimately be closed, but that the Government would in all probability delay action till its vales would be dis- counted by popular disgust at their procrastination. That is exactly what has happened.
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