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in former times, though himself inimical to betting, 

 built, for the accommodation of his patrons who were 

 addicted to what he deprecated, a ' house of call ' more 

 commodious than his parlour, which had previously 

 served their purpose as well as it could ; in 1869 and 

 1870 the Jockey Club successfully wrestled with Sir 

 J. Hawley in his attempts to revolutionise horse- 

 racing and the constitution of the Club, after the 

 fashion advocated (though not to the same extent, 

 apparently) in these latter days by the reforming 

 Earl of Durham ; and in 1872 Admiral Eous, on pro- 

 posing (with Lord Falmouth, represented by Lord 

 Calthorpe, as seconder) that ' no person starting one, 

 two, or more horses, shall give orders to his jockey to 

 pull up a horse that has a chance of winning, on any 

 plea of declaration, or under any circumstances/ was 

 promptly defeated by 22 votes to 4. 



This is the more extraordinary because, as we 

 have seen, the Club had in 1838 expressed its extreme 

 disapprobation of starting horses without the intention 

 of winning with them ; and plain folk will have a 

 difficulty in understanding how that can mean any- 

 thing else than ' without the intention of winning 

 with that which turns out to be the best of them in 

 the race for which they are run,' for that is surely the 

 end and aim of racing, and any other way of racing, 

 as Admiral Eous clearly saw and as clearly stated, 

 may be turned to sinister purposes. It is only fair to 

 say that members of the Jockey Club, who were quite 



