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INDEX. 



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handicapping, 1 66 ; analysis 

 of St. Blaise's trial spin with 

 Shotover, 1 68 ; trainers' trial- 

 books, 169 ; Matt. Dawson's 

 system, 170; trial of Silvio, 

 Jannette, Wheel of Fortune, 

 and Charibert, over the Row- 

 ley Mile, 171 ; history of the 

 Bend Or controversy, 174; 

 trials of Gladiateur, 177- 

 179 ; decadence of trials 

 over long courses, 180 ; a 

 remarkable instance of pri- 

 vate trial over a long distance, 

 181 ; anecdotes of Mr. G. 

 Payne, 70, 182, 183 ; Admiral 

 Rous, 183; how Count La- 

 grange lost 2,ooo/. over the 

 sale of Verneuil, 187 ; St. 

 Simon and Tristan, 188 ; Mr. 

 George Payne and Mr. Charles 

 Greville, 189 ; origin of the 

 Rothschild stud, 189; table 

 of scale of weight for age, 

 191 ; celebrated trainers, 193; 

 Gervase Markham's notions 

 ot training, 196; the Chifneys' 

 method of training, 204; ill 

 effects of excess of two-year- 

 old racing and short handicaps, 

 205 ; the Days' system, 206; 

 Spartan discipline, 207 ; John 

 Scott, 208 ; Thomas Dawson's 

 method, 209 ; advantage of a 

 good wife to a trainer, 210 ; 

 John Kent's management of 

 Lord George Bentinck's stud, 

 2 10-213 '> tne forcing system, 

 214 ; more advocates of the 

 Spartan treatment, 216, 217 ; 

 promising trainers, 218 ; our 

 jockeys, 220 ; the jockeys of 

 old, 220, 225 ; an analysis of 



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performances in the pigskin, 

 222 ; a waiting race, 224 ; 

 snaffles, 225 ; the Chifney 

 rush and slack rein, 226 ; Sam 

 Chifney's training as a jockey, 

 226 ; the latter days of the 

 Chifneys, 227 ; an unscrupu- 

 lous jockey, 228 ; antipathies 

 of horse to man, 230 ; the sad 

 setting of a famous rider, 231 ; 

 the personality of Bill Scott, 

 232 ; a two thousand guinea 

 match at York in 1759, 237 ; 

 amateur starters, 238 ; win, 

 tie, or wrangle,' 238 ; pug- 

 nacious jockeys, 239 ; Pavis 

 horsewhips G. Edwards and 

 is fined, 239 ; George Ford- 

 ham, 239 ; Fred Archer, 241 ; 

 temptations of crack jockeys, 

 243 ; Lord Airlie's little 

 present to Frank Butler, 244 ; 

 magnitude of the presents 

 now bestowed on jockeys, 245 ; 

 morality of betting, 246 ; 

 betting ingrained in the ave- 

 rage Briton, 246 ; the betting 

 fraternity, 247 ; scheme of a 

 hundred -pound book, 248 ; 

 post-betting, 249 ; hedging, 

 249 ; ready-money betting, 

 250 ; anomaly of the law on 

 betting, 251 ; the ring, 252 ; 

 the ' community of backers,' 

 252 ; reticence of owners, 



252 ; professional backers, 



253 ; casual settlers, 256 ; ins 

 and outs of bookmaking, 

 256 ; a neat way of shelving 

 a transaction, 257 ; counsel 

 to backers, 259; commission 

 agents, 260 ; more about touts, 

 262; tipsters,263; a tipster dug 



