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required ' odds ' were forthcoming, and so gave the 

 sanction of his high authority to the abominable 

 practice of ' putting on the screw.' 



In 1875 the Jockey Club, marching with the 

 times, actually erected a Grand Stand ; and, as for 

 many years a charge had been made for carriages 

 of all kinds, Newmarket became, to all intents and 

 purposes, almost as much a ' gate-money ' race-cours 

 as Kempton, Sandown, etc., which, joined to the fact 

 that so many members of the Jockey Club have 

 houses at Newmarket, makes the Heath a more 

 private race-course (of which the members of the 

 Jockey Club are the proprietors) than many another 

 which is so-called but belongs to a company of share- 

 holders. It may be a matter of regret, from certain 

 points of view, to see the old delightful freedom and 

 costlessness and openness to everybody departing from 

 that which was peculiarly a popular spectacle, but the 

 * gate ' gives an excellent means of excluding the pro- 

 fessional ' bettor,' whenever it seems proper to adopt 

 that course. 



We may now pass on to 1876, when there was 

 another ' reg'lar new fit out o' rules,' which will be 

 found in ' Weatherby ' ; and it may be noted in 

 passing, that the President of the American Jockey 

 Club was by this time admitted among the honorary 

 members of the English. In this year the Club had to 

 deal with a representation made to them by certain 

 ' owners and trainers of horses,' who desired to put 



