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benefits, as very likely do various vendors of patent 

 foods ; and from its early days the saddler has some- 

 thing to do with it in the provision of bits and 

 bridles. It is sent to Newmarket, Doncaster, 

 Ascot, or elsewhere for sale ; here the railway 

 companies come in, and the printer has his little 

 turn in preparing catalogues and advertisements. 

 It is purchased and sent to a trainer ; saddles, 

 bridles, rugs, clothing are required ; the very best 

 hay procurable is necessary ; it has its own boy 

 (who in some stables receives 2^s. a week), and 

 presently a jockey is wanted, who must be 

 equipped with jacket and cap, boots and breeches ; 

 as also with whips and spurs, which are sometimes 

 useful and frequently the reverse. Railway com- 

 panies again, hotel keepers, proprietors of stabling 

 and their assistants make money out of the animal. 

 A race meeting is a harvest for cabmen in the 

 town where the sport takes place. Letters of 

 lodgings and provision merchants take their toll ; 

 the care of the racecourse and stands necessitates 

 the employment of all sorts of men ; when the 

 horse has run it has to be sent home again — indeed, 

 most of the railway companies derive a huge 

 revenue from racing, to the advantage of their 

 shareholders. The sporting Press is largely sus- 

 tained by racing, and there are few papers and 



