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lation consequent on the result, 

 27 ; turf chicanery in Queen 

 Anne's time, 27 ; subscription 

 races at York, 28 ; royal, and 

 other plates, 28, 29 ; racing 

 in Scotland, 30 ; Galloways, 

 30; breeding in Ireland, 31, 

 33-39 '■> list of stallions in 

 1794, 32; the turf in 1793, 

 32 ; cocktails, 33, 34 ; pro- 

 gress of racing, 40 ; rivalry of 

 north and south, 41 ; convey- 

 ance of horses to their engage- 

 ments by road, 41 ; Lord 

 George Bentinck vans Elis, 

 42 ; turf espionage, 43 ; touts, 

 43, 44 ; interested journalism, 



44 ; qualities of a turf writer, 



45 ; influence of racing on 

 breeding, 46 ; a journalist's 

 strange code of turf ethics, 

 46, 47 ; gate-money meetings, 

 49> 735 89 ; Sandown Park, 

 50; the Education Act and 

 the ' Infant Phenomenon,' 51 ; 

 suburban racing and Parlia- 

 ment, 52 ; temperance so- 

 cieties' tinkering, 52 ; history 

 of the Jockey Club, 53-59 ; 

 titles and duties of racing 

 officials defined, 60-72 ; re- 

 trospective sketches of racing 

 at Nev^market, 73-88 ; racing 

 in the provinces, 89 ; Ascot, 

 90 ; Epsom, 90-92 ; Don- 

 caster, 92 ; Goodwood, 92, 

 93 ; York, 93 ; Newmarket 

 no longer an open meeting, 

 94 ; Danebury and Stock- 

 bridge, 94-c6 ; the old and 

 new style of racing servants, 

 97-I07 ; jockeys' betting and 

 ■its evils, 105-107 ; model 



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training stables, 107-II05 

 breeding, 111-I19 ; treatment 

 of yearlings, 120; Gladiateur's 

 pugnacity in the paddock, 

 122 ; goats as disinfectors in 

 stables, 123 ; breaking in, 



124 ; the Calendar birthday, 



125 ; training for two-year- 

 old racing, 127, 128; points 

 requisite in a racer, 128 ; 

 early trials of yearlings and 

 two-year-olds, 131-148; Lord 

 Lyon, 1 34- 1 37 ; the Jezabel 

 squabble, 135 ; the Phenix 

 riot at Epsom, 140 ; weight 

 for age the basis of trials with 

 old horses, 148 ; three-year- 

 old fillies not trustworthy, 

 148 ; on the training of three- 

 year-olds, 149-152 ; * six-' 

 penny five -furlong races,' 149 ; 

 Sir Joseph Hawley's theory 

 of trying three-year-olds at 

 weight forage, 152, 153, 157 ; 

 trials of The Palmer, 153- 

 155 ; Sir Joseph's moment of 

 weakness, 157 ; hint on start- 

 ing horses in trials on short 

 courses, 158; episodes culled 

 from the Rothschild stables, 

 159; clever handicapping, 

 161 ; analysis of St. Blaise's 

 trial spin with Shotover, 163 ; 

 trainers' trial-books, 164 ; 

 Matt. Dawson's system, 165 ; 

 trials of Silvio, Jannette, 

 Wheel of Fortune, and Chari- 

 bert, 165, 166 ; the Bend Or 

 case, 168; history of the con- 

 troversy, 169-172; trials of 

 Gladiateur, 172-174 ; of 

 Donovan, 174, 175; and Or- 

 monde, 175 ; Memoir v. 



