OTHER SEATS OF HORSE-RACING. 



I. 



Racing of some kind, good or bad as may 

 happen, is carried on, not only at Newmarket, 

 but at many other places all the year round. 

 When flat-racing ceases, steeple-chasing follows, 

 and proceeds till what is called " the legitimate 

 season" begins; it occupies the period from about 

 the end of March till the close of November. 

 Hardened turfites, that is men who make racing 

 and betting the business of their lives, long, it is 

 said, in the early part of the year to hear the 

 saddling-bell sound at Lincoln where the first 

 meeting is held ; and from that much-talked-of 

 seat of sport they journey to Liverpool, and 

 thence to Northampton and other seats of horse- 

 racing, pursuing their business most industriously, 

 shouting the state of the odds with stentorian 

 lungs and booking no end of bets, for wherever 

 half-a-dozen bookmakers assemble, there will also 

 be found an army of bettors eager to take " the 

 odds," some of them with " systems " by which 

 they hope to make their fortunes ; others, too, are 

 there, who trust to luck, or the bringing off of an 



