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which he appears. I find the next on the Hst 

 of legitimate sportsmen to be the owner of 

 race horses. 



Owners of race horses, as specified in the 

 list, comprehend the noble or gentleman owning 

 a string of horses which he keeps for the 

 legitimate purpose of running for stakes, or in 

 matchea, as the case may be, and running them 

 like a sportsman, " to win " of course, including 

 the mystic proviso, if they can ; but the run- 

 ning " to win," though only two words, is per- 

 fectly understood in quarters where an opposite 

 intention but too often prevails. 



The anti-sporting community may say, "What 

 earthly good can arise from a man keeping a 

 string of race horses in training, beyond the 

 employment of a few persons of equivocal cha- 

 racter from their pursuits ? " They think such 

 questions would puzzle a man to answer. They 

 are probably of the same clique as her I quoted 

 many pages back, who "thanked God her hus- 



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