426 



RACING, 



BEV 



the law on betting, 255 ; the 

 ring, 255 ; the ' communiiy 

 of backers,' 256 ; reticence 

 of owners, 256 ; professional 

 backers. 257; betting owners, 

 25S ; hit-or-miss backers, 259 ; 

 casual settlers, 260 ; ins and 

 outs of bookmaking, 260 ; a 

 neat way of shelving a transac- 

 tion, 261; counsel to backers, 

 263 ; commission agents, 264; 

 more about touts, 266 ; tip- 

 sters, 266; a tipster dugout, 



268 ; prophets of the sporting 

 press, 268 ; the Committees of 

 Arbitration, 268 ; defaulters, 



269 ; play or pay races, 271 ; 

 who does win the money on 

 the turf, 272 ; proposal to 

 register bookmakers, 272 



Bevill, Mr., clerk of the course, 



62 

 Bevys, Sir, of Southampton, 



quoted, 8 

 Bewicke, Capt. P. W., 386 

 Bits, 18 

 Blackmoor Vale point-to-point 



steeple-chase, 352 

 Blackwood, Mr., tragic death of, 



on Newmarket Heath, 74 

 Blanton, Charles, and Admiral 



Rous, 76 

 Blount, Mr., on breeding, 112, 



"3 



Bookmakers, sporting journals 

 in the interest of, 44 ; the 

 term a misnomer, 251 ; le- 

 niency of, toward defaulters, 

 269 ; Mr. Fry's proposals 

 regarding, 272 



Bosville, Humphrey, 31 



Breeding, no ' royal road ' to, 5 ; 

 crossing, 5 ; early laws con- 



CHA 

 cerning breeding, 10 ; in Ire- 

 land, 31, 33-39; list of 

 stallions, 32 ; breeding in 

 England, 31-34 ; in the North 

 of England, 41 ; influence of 

 racing on breeding, 46 ; suit- 

 ability of English climate, 

 III : indigenous horses, Hi ; 

 introduction of Eastern blood, 

 III ; failure of the Children 

 of the Desert, 113 ; suggested 

 importation of Polish horses, 

 114; effects of English cli- 

 mate and nurture on Eastern 

 horses, 114; horses valueless 

 at the stud, 1 15; confused 

 crossing, 116 ; state of health 

 to be ascertained before serv- 

 ing, 117; necessity of exer- 

 cise, 117, 118; inbreeding, 

 118 ; how to ensure success, 

 119; maladies of English 

 climate, 119; General Pear- 

 son's theories on, 1 34 {see also 

 under Racing) 



Brewer, Mr. C, 170, 172 



Brinitzky, Prince, 114 



Brocklesby steeple-chase, 3 \'j 



Brockton, Mr., 385 



' Bubbing,' 19 



Bulkeley, Captain, 90 



Burton, quoted, 19 



Cadogan, Lord, 106 

 Calthorpe, Lord, and Admiral 



Rous, 69 

 Card of the Brocklesby steeple 



chase meeting, 347 

 Carew, quoted, ii 

 CavaHero, M,,and Verneuil, 185 

 Chaplin, Mr. Henry, 153, 159, 



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