INDEX. 



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out, 264 ; prophets of the 

 sporting press, 264 ; the 

 Committees of Arbitration, 

 264 ; defaulters, 265 ; play 

 or pay races, 267 ; who does 

 win the money on the turf, 

 268 ; steeple-chasing, 273- 

 332 ; hurdle-racing, 333-339 ', 

 local meetings, 340-349 ; 

 famous chasers and their 

 riders, 350-372 ; strains of 

 celebrated horses, with tabu- 

 lated pedigrees, 373-407 



Racing officials, 61-73 



Ragg, Sir F., 29 



Redesdale's, Lord, Bill for fix- 

 ing lowest weight to be car- 

 ried by horses, 52 



Rice, Mr., quoted, 203 



Richardson, Mr. J. M., 342, 

 349, 361, 362, 363* 364 



Richmond, Duke of, 94 



Riding, 318 



Riding academy, the first in Eng- 

 land, 22 



Ring, the, 107, 249, 251, 252 



Rothschild, Baron Meyer de, 

 185, 190 



Rothschild stud, origin of the, 

 189 



Rous, Admiral, anecdotes con- 

 cerning, 69, 70, 77 ; quoted, 

 128, 182, 183 



Running-horses, 8 



SANDOWN Park, 52, 292 

 Scotland, racing in, 32 

 Scott, John. 98, 194, 205, 208 

 Servants, racing, 98 

 Sherrard, Mr. R., 102, 108 

 Smith, Captain Arthur, 371 

 Smithfield as a horse mart, 8 



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Snaffles, 225 



Sporting correspondents, 45 

 Stables, 16, 101, 108-111 ; goats 

 as disinfectors in, 124 ; drain- 

 age of, f 24 



Stakeholder, duties of the, 71 

 Stallions, list of, in 1794, with 



their prices, 34 

 Stapylton, Major, his theories of 



breeding, 115 

 Starters, duties of, 63, 238 

 Steeple- chasing, early history of, 

 275; an extraordinary steeple- 

 chase, 276 ; Major Wilson's 

 match with Popylina, 277 ; 

 Irish sportsmen, 278 ; match 

 between Captain Ross and 

 Lord Kennedy, 279 ; the 

 sport in Ireland, 280; in 

 France, 280 ; objections to 

 chasing as a popular spectacle, 

 280 ; the first Liverpool 

 .steeple-chase, 281 ; Grand 

 National supplants selling 

 race, 281 ; a ' disgraceful 

 affair,' 283 ; formation of the 

 Grand National Hunt Com- 

 mittee, 283 ; its composition, 

 285 ; selection of the chaser, 

 287 ; Irish horses, 290 ; the 

 time of the Grand National 

 compared with the Derby, 

 291 ; breeding and blood, 

 292 ; racecourse hunters, 

 293 ; do horses like jumping ? 

 -93 > qualities of a good 

 chaser, 294 ; the lottery in 

 breeding, 294 ; schooling, 

 296 ; Dick Christian's sys- 

 tem, 298 ; jumping schools, 

 300 ; an Irish method, 301 ; 

 the horse's disposition to IDC 

 studied, 302 ; a fair hunting 

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