112 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



Whether anything like this was stated to the 

 rider of Escape, as being likely to be the 

 Prince's wish I know not, or whether Chifney 

 under a similar feeling did not push his horse 

 to extremity in the first day's race I know not 

 either, nor can it ever be known; but had the 

 Prince given any such directions as I state an 

 owner of race horses to have done, the most 

 that could be said is that it was injudicious ; 

 but a man like H.R.H. might well think he 

 might give such directions (if he did so) and 

 that his elevated position would carry firm 

 assurance he was actuated by no mercenary 

 motives in doing so. But certain persons lost 

 their money. This they could not forgive, and 

 whether Prince or Demigod, their having done 

 so, called forth all the venon of their tongues, 

 to an extent that must ever be remembered with 

 feelings of contempt for the instigators of it. 



It may be said that while racing exists 

 betting will exist also. It will and must 



