THE TURF. 
one of the party was hanged for the offence. But 
people know better now, and the disgrace of the halter is 
avoided ; no post mortem examination no solution of 
arsenic. A little opiate ball given overnight, is all that is 
necessary to retard a horse in his race, but not prevent 
his starting. Winners of races are now not in request. 
A good favourite is the horse wanting, and there are many 
ways to prevent his winning this among the rest. 
There is one point more that we must touch on, 
" Disce, puer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem, 
Fortunam ex aliis," 
says jEneas to his son, when he advises him not to trust 
to her wanton smiles for achievement and success. It is 
quite certain that luck has very little to do with racing, 
and the man who trusts to it will find he is leaning 
on a broken staff. To the owner of a racing stud, who 
means to act uprightly, nothing but good management 
can insure success, and even with this he has fearful 
odds against him, so many striving for the same prize. 
His horses must be well-bred, well-reared, well-en- 
gaged, well-trained, well-weighted, and well-ridden 
nothing else will succeed in the long run. Still less 
has luck to do with betting. The speculator on other 
people's horses can only succeed by the help of one or 
the other of these expedients namely, great knowledge 
of horseflesh and astute observation of public running, 
deep calculation, or secret fraud ; and that the last- 
mentioned resource is the base upon which many large 
fortunes have in our day been built, no man will be 
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