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course such things have happened, but not nearly 

 so often, nor to such an extent, as folks talk about. 

 After all, a man is running a great risk of penal 

 servitude, and he must not only be pretty well paid, 

 but must be very clever to accomplish it without 

 being found out, especially in these days, when 

 every precaution is taken. It would be a very risky 

 thing indeed for a bookmaker to lay against a horse 

 on the chance of its being "got at," and unless the 

 thing was done in a very scientific manner, the chances 

 are that the attempt would show itself, and, then, 

 what likelihood has he to lay against the horse to 

 make it worth his while ? 



It is wonderful to think what some of the people 

 of the present day who are crying out for the 

 date of the ages of thoroughbred horses to be 

 changed from January i to May i, and also of the 

 depreciation of our blood stock on account of the 

 early running of two-year-olds, would have thought 

 of a yearling race such as I saw in 1859 at the 

 Shrewsbury Autumn Meeting. It was called the 

 Anglesey Stakes. I can't call to mind just now all 

 the runners, but I know a filly by ' Orlando ' — 

 'Volley,' afterwards called 'Little Lady,' owned by 

 Lord Stamford, won. There was a yearling race 

 at the same place the previous year, won by a mare 



