116 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



up his ill luck, which in the generality of 

 cases follows him up also, the result is easy to 

 anticipate. 



Let it not be supposed that, in speaking in 

 favour of racing and the owners of race horses, 

 I am an advocate of betting. No man dislikes it 

 more than myself, but I cannot but recollect 

 that every national amusement and every national 

 enterprise has its drawback in some way ; that 

 drawback we must bear, and if the good pre- 

 ponderates over the evil it is all, in most 

 things, we have a right to expect. 



