IN A EACING STABLE. 



The worst use you can put a man to, say tlie anti-capital 

 punishment party, is to hang him. The worst use you can 

 put a magnificent horse to, say I, is to make him a mere 

 vehicle for gambling, and to cause him to be so handled in 

 the stable or on the race-coin^se that his whole strength and 

 energy are intentionally cramped for the purposes of the 

 betting-ring or possibly of his owner. 



The late Lord Derby was very strong on the question of 

 the abuse of horse-racing, and stated in print — I think in 

 the Times — that expressions such as " it is not his journey," 

 "he was never meant," (fee, (fee, are direct proofs that as 

 regards the class called "the sporting world," as contra- 

 distinguished from the real British sportsman, the horse is 

 an animal about which they care nothing, except as a means 

 of gambling. 



In the present autumn I had a private introduction to a 

 well-known and much respected trainer and owner of race- 

 horses, who had gone through the whole career of racing 

 from boyhood, from the lowest rung of the ladder, and 

 who, owing to his own industry and integrity, lives in a 

 comfortable house surrounded by a small home farm of his 

 own, all freehold, and all bought and paid for by his own 

 industry. 

 66 



