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mount, and ^3 for a winner. Racing commences in the 

 middle of May, and finishes in the middle of October in all, 

 about five months ; at the most three days each week, and 

 four races daily for jockeys, the other races being set apart 

 for gentlemen and Russian boys only. Some days the 

 biggest field is four runners, so that most of the jockeys are 

 looking on. What a fortune the jockeys must make in 

 Russia ! " 



The Russian racing authorities, like the trotting rulers, 

 freely lavish prohibitive restrictions and very oppressive 

 penalties on foreign competitors, although they are more 

 lenient on mares than on entires and geldings. There is a 

 large number of thoroughbreds raised in Russia, but we 

 seldom hear of them winning races outside their own country. 

 I remember when we were living in Newmarket, that Mr. 

 Edwin . Martin had in training a big chestnut colt called 

 Perkun, who belonged to Count Krasinski. He started 

 sixteen times in 1884 and 1885, and secured only one race, 

 a five furlong handicap, in which he was lucky to meet a 

 poor class. Perkun could gallop when he liked, but he did 

 not approve of showing off his abilities in public. He deceived 

 even his clever and careful trainer ; for shortly before the 

 Goodwood Meeting of 1885, Martin gave him a gallop with 

 Dalmeny, whom he was training for Mr. Morton, with the 

 result that the Russian showed a pair of clean heels to the 

 stout son of Rosebery and Polyglot, That spin naturally 

 made Martin think that Dalmeny could not possibly win the 

 Stewards' Cup for which he was entered ; but his honest 

 advice had no influence on the chivalrous Mr. Morton, who 

 was one of those men that prefer to lose money than not to 

 back a favourite horse which has previously done them a 

 good turn. Dalmeny rewarded his owner's devotion by 

 winning the Stewards' Cup at the remunerative odds of 

 50 to i. Like many other thoroughly game horses, Dalmeny 



