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as one knows it better ; it is all the 

 real business side of racing here, and 

 endurance of the place soon gives way 

 to real fondness and appreciation as 

 you become accustomed to the different 

 courses with their different gradients, and 

 a lover of the thoroughbred has count- 

 less opportunities for taking note at 

 morning work on the Limekilns or Bury 

 Hills, and in Messrs. TattersalFs sale pad- 

 dock. It needs an abler pen than mine 

 to describe the glories of Ascot, or the 

 picturesque charms of Goodwood ; but 

 for real business commend me to New- 

 market, where the very air smells of 

 racing, so to speak — and a peculiarly 

 bracing air it is, too, having a sweet 

 scent peculiarly its own on a Two Thou- 

 sand Guineas morning in April. Your 

 average racing man needs a fair constitu- 

 tion to stand the exposure and travelling 

 in wet things one often has to endure. 



