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take an interest in the Turf. Cynicism would incline 

 towards the former explanation, Christian charity 

 towards the latter. 



In 1838 the Cluh declared its ' extreme disappro- 

 bation of horses being started for races without the 

 intention on the part of the owners of trying to win ' 

 (of which more will be said presently), and enacted a 

 rule (for Newmarket) that ' any member of a Eacing 

 Club riding in with the leading horses, shall be fined 

 25 sovs., and anybody else 5 soys.' This objectionable 

 practice had been very common with the illustrious 

 and Et. Hon. C. J. I^ox, and with that stern reformer 

 of abuses Lord G. Bentinck himself (insomuch that 

 the Judge Clark of that day, having had his placing 

 of the horses called in question, remarked that he 

 ' ought properly to have placed a tall gentleman in a 

 white macintosh first,' Lord George being a tall gen- 

 tleman who wore a white macintosh), and called aloud 

 for stringent repression. It has already been noticed 

 that the Club in 1842 declined to have anything fur- 

 ther to do with disputes about bets ; so we may get 

 on to 1844, when the ' Eunning Eein ' scandal in con- 

 nection with the Derby of that year, as well as the 

 1 Leander case ' and the ' Eatan case ' in connection 

 with the same Derby, and the ' Bloodstone case ' in 

 connection with the New Stakes at Ascot in the same 

 year, gave the Jockey Club no end of trouble. There 

 is no intention here of re-telling the threadbare stories 

 of rascality. They are merely alluded to for the pur- 



