The ideajof giving up Epsom as a course is abandoned. A number of fresh sharei in the grand stand were issued lately, and were disposed of immediately. They are paying between twenty-fire and thirty per cent. It is just possible that in a tew years the idea of moving the Derby to Gravesend may be carried out, but racing men seem determined to keep the great event of the year at Bpsom for the present if they possibly oan. , There are seven! objections to the Gravesend course, one of them being that itjis not so easily reached as that of .Epson, which is eommaaded by several railway lines, and by large station aceomodation for passengers. -. ; " Business before pleasure," at the shoemaker said when he worked bathe day of his wife's funeral. '> -, '
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3603, 14 July 1880, Page 2
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131Untitled Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3603, 14 July 1880, Page 2
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