THE TURF 143 



that at any time ; but it is the many dirty 

 tricks, the innumerable attempts at roguery, 

 which have lately been displayed, that have 

 given a taint to Doncaster race-ground which 

 it will require many years of clean fallow to 

 get rid of. We will not enumerate these 

 vile/a uxpas the last but one, ' the swindle,' 

 as it is termed, the most barefaced of all 

 but let the noblemen and gentlemen who 

 wish well to Doncaster, and who do not 

 wish to see the meeting expunged from the 

 Racing Calendar^ act a little more vigorously 

 than they have hitherto done, and not let 

 villainy go unpunished before their eyes. 

 Let a mark be set upon all owners, trainers, 

 and riders of horses with which tricks are 

 played; let them be driven off the course 

 by order of the stewards ; let them never 

 again appear at the starting-post or in the 

 betting-ring ; and then, but not till then, 

 will racing be once more respectable. Let 

 us indulge our hopes that this will be the 

 case, and that Yorkshire racing no longer 

 shall be the reproach of the present age. 

 ' All these storms that fall upon us,' said 

 Don Quixote, ' are signs the weather will 

 clear up the evil having lasted long, the 



