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CONTENTS. 
Trainers, evils of their bet- 
ting on races 243 
Training, the commencement 
of, 121 ; alteration in the 
system of 135 
Trials, 138; false ones 139 
Turf, comments upon the 121 
Udney, Colonel, his career... 206 
Van Diemen's Land, races in 230 
Vansittart, Mr 208 
Vernon, late Hon. Richard, 
177; his character, by 
Holcroft 177 
Verulam, Earl of 199 
Warren, scene in thf 213 
Warwick, Earl of 199 
Wasting, system of 171 
Watt, Mr. .. ... 243 
Weight, 142 ; what first car- 
ried by race-horses 117 
Wemyss, Colonel 127 
William III. and his Queen 
patronised racing 124 
William IV., his stud, 126 ; 
anecdote of 127 
Wilson, the late Mr. Richard 182 
Wilson, Mr., Father of the 
Turf, 181; his career. 
181 ; his attention to the 
interest of the turf, 182 ; 
detects a forgery, 221; 
anecdote of, respecting a 
trial 141 
Wilton, Earl of, as a jockey 200 
Wood, Sir Mark, his career 203 
York, late Duke of, his career 
and stud . ... 189 
