110 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



arise from the wish to make money by bets. 

 To effect this he cannot be seen betting against 

 his own horse, he must consequently entrust 

 others to do so, who, though they may not be 

 QUITE in the secret, must have it in their power 



to say, if they choose to do so. Lord 



employed me to get on all the money I could 

 against his horse; thus at once damaging his 

 character as a sportsman, a gentleman, or a 

 man of common honesty. Is it to be supposed 

 that any gentleman would thus confide his 

 character to the keeping of a man who must 

 be of (to say the least) very questionable 

 character himself, and who on any real or 

 imagined offence can take reprisal in the> bitterest 

 way? An owner doing this virtually makes 

 himself a slave ever after to such a man. Nor 

 must he confide in his trainer in any transaction 

 that will not bear the light, for in doing so 

 he converts his servant into his master, and 

 one who would very properly remind him of 



