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RACING. 



CHAPTER V. 



NEWMARKET. 



Tan gallop at Newmarket. 



N the matter of expenditure, the Jockey Club seems 

 always to have lived ' from hand to mouth ' ; in 

 other words, it has annually devoted the whole, 

 or within a fraction of the whole, of its income to racing, 

 in the shape of added money, the maintenance and rent of 

 gallops and racecourses, and the salaries of its large staff of 

 officials. 



When, therefore, gate-money meetings came into fashion 

 throughout the land, there was no alternative but to march 

 with the times, to build stands, to make enclosures, to 

 substitute the white rails of modern civilisation for the old- 

 fashioned ropes and stakes of our forefathers, and otherwise 

 alter the whole character and aspect of the Newmarket meet- 



