CHAPTER XLII 



TATTERSALLS' ENCLOSURE 



Dispersing Fortunes — Richest Man To-day— Amateur Bookmakers — 

 The Baronet on the Rails — " Ladbroke's " — The Late Dick Dunn — 

 The Lapses of " Lakey " 



Tattersalls' enclosure is a peaceful garden, a real 

 " reserved liwn " to what it was in former days, and 

 so, too, is the cheaper ring. The ticket snatcher has 

 been suppressed, and even the smallest amateur knows 

 that he can give his name with his cash wager and not 

 take a ticket, thus establishing an entente between 

 himself and one of the enterprising layers on the out- 

 skirts of the market. For the knowledge of those who 

 may not be quite so familiar with the racecourse as 

 others, it might be said that there is nothing like the 

 money in the ring to-day that there was a generation 

 ago. Of course extra competition is partly the cause 

 of this, but the vast fortunes made have been dis- 

 tributed by bequests to what have frequently been 

 large families, and the money has thus drifted into 

 other channels. Take men like Peech, Steel, George 

 Herring and many others ; immense fortunes have 

 gone. 



The richest man to-day is reckoned to be Mr Pickers- 

 gill. He is interested in many large commercial 

 enterprises in Leeds, where he lives, and by an easy 

 process of reckoning might be a millionaire. I have 

 to look up and down to find the next most wealthy. 

 George Turner, of Turner & Robinson, is a rich man, 

 and so is the owner-bookmaker, Charles Hibbert. I 



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