AT LARGE 



BY ALFRED E. T. WATSON 



The racing world ! where hope is ever 

 springing afresh, to be in the majority of cases 

 overtaken by disappointment ; where the un- 

 expected continually happens, and, not seldom, 

 what has seemed to be the practically impossible ; 

 where the ruling power is a half-merry, half- 

 malicious little sprite called Luck. And its in- 

 habitants ! Surely nowhere else can be found so 

 strange a conglomeration — kings and beggars. 

 Prime Ministers and bootblacks, the owner of the 

 Derby winner and the wretched hanger-on who 

 risks his life amid a bewildering throng of ram- 

 shackle vehicles to earn a copper if he can by 

 opening the door of a broken-down fly. 



A bulky volume might well be written under 

 the title of " Royalty and Racing " ; there would 

 certainly be no lack of material. Readers 



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