THE SPORTING WORLD. 1/5 



by setting a bad example to others. I allude to 

 the Turf man who keeps horses solely for the 

 purpose of making money, and has none of the 

 true feelings of a Sportsman about him, we 

 must call him a sporting man and a racing 

 man, though his practices strike at the very 

 root of fair and legitimate racing, by shewing it 

 as a sport in which the honourable man is 

 made the victim of the unworthy ; this is 

 effected by the man who figuratively keeps race 

 horses to win or lose as best suits his book. 

 Now there may be occasionally a race that he 

 is next to certain his horse can win, in such 

 case he backs him, wins his money and his 

 race, he must to carry out his plans win some- 

 times ; or no one would bet on his horses when 

 it is determined they shall lose, and it is very 

 certain that if he can get no money on he 

 can carry none off, which, whether he runs in 

 the hopes of winning or with the certainty of 

 losing, it is his full intention to do. 



