398 TURF. 



equally safe from detection ; as giving a 

 horse water in the night previous to the 

 day of running ; or throwing a mild ca^ 

 thartic or stro)ig diuretic into the body, 

 to produce indisposition, and prevent the 

 POSSIBILITY of a horse winning, when 

 it is determined by the cabinet coun- 

 cil, that it is for the general good he must 

 LOSE. If any rational being, any generous 

 unsuspecting sportsman, or any juvenile 

 novice has the most slender doubt re- 

 maining of these practices, let me render 

 the matter decisive, and bring it to a ne- 

 cessary conclusion, by a single question 

 that will not require a moment's discussion 

 in reply. 



By what other means than those al- 

 ready described between the^ family and 

 THE riders, have the numbers that are 

 well known, and that we constantly see 

 in the height of business in every populous 

 betting-ring, arisen to a state of opu- 

 lence ? What can have exalted men, who 

 were bankrupts in trade : post-chaise 

 drivers, hair-dressers, waiters, footmen, 

 my, the lowest class of gamblers, (that ab- 



