176 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



It is necessary that characters of this sort 

 (unhke the common better we shall look 

 at presently) must be pretty good judges of 

 race horses, both as regards their own and 

 those of other persons ; they must be able to 

 pretty accurately measure the capabilities of 

 each or they could never judge where their 

 horses had a fair or all but sure chance of 

 winning, or where he must lose, for they 

 rarely go quite on an uncertainty. Sometimes 

 even these men "get into the hole," but far 

 more frequently put others "in the pot." 



This part of the Sporting World do not 

 rank generally as gentlemen, we must blush for 

 those who have hitherto done so, if they ever 

 join in the practices of such a clique, but very 

 properly, if they do thus act, their reign as gentle- 

 men is short; they have then only to show as 

 one of the sort that helps swell the number of 

 mere sporting men. If we separate betting from 

 racing the man who makes losing his game 



