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cause only matured horses to perform on 

 the race-course; but later on the lust for 

 money prompted those careless of evil 

 consequences to enter young animals to 

 run before their bones were set, before 

 the tissues of their bodies were fully 

 developed ; and yet racing men want us 

 to believe that such a system is calculated 

 to improve our breeds of horses. 



Xinety-nine men out of one hundred Ninety-nine 



'^ men out of 



who attend race-meetings for the purpose aueud race-^ 

 of betting are not uiterested in the wel- J^e^gSf^ 

 fare of horses. The horse to them is an betting. 

 item whereby they expect to make 

 money. A roped course without a bet- 

 ting ring would not allure them to its 

 confines, but a dice-box attracts them as 

 a loadstone a needle ; its magnetic in- 

 fluence enslaves patrician and plebeian 



