222 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



Where a match is made with the intention 

 of its being won is where the feat appears 

 next to impossible to be done. In this case 

 a considerable sum is to be "got on'* against 

 the performance, these are the atrocities, in the 

 shape of cruelty, that I so detest ; for where, 

 as in such cases, the money to be won far 

 exceeds the value of the animal to perform it, 

 we may guess no species of barbarity will be 

 spared to make him do it. If on the other 

 hand the match is such as the Sporting World 

 consider the horse is quite capable of, they 

 will, if they fancy they can trust the owner, 

 of course bei on it, but he most probably 

 shows how far he was to be trusted by losing 

 it ; but it is seldom this take in is practised 

 on the betting fraternity, they are too wary to 

 trust to the intentions of those making the 

 match, and it is only a chosen few that are 

 in the real secret and share in the spoils. 



To the credit of gentlemen, they are very. 



