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that abound in almost every city and large town 

 of the kingdom. 



The betting in connection with horse-racing which 

 has of late been so fiercely denounced, andjthe rationale 

 of which is so little understood by even the best 

 informed economists and legislators, is described at 

 considerable length in the following pages, whilst 

 the practice of betting on credit is honestly denounced 

 for the reasons given. Chapters of this book are 

 also devoted to other phases of turf organisation ; 

 the powers of the Jockey Club are detailed and 

 explained, the rules of racing are criticised, and the 

 every-day work of trainers, touts, tipsters, and jockeys 

 set forth. 



Sporting writers, when turf matters are being 

 considered, and the sordid motives of the majority 

 of those who frequent racecourses and other turf 

 resorts are being called in question, cry out loudly 

 about the unfairness of attacking the turf, and allowing 

 the more gigantic gambling of which the Stock 

 Exchange is the theatre to escape censure. But as 

 the proverb says, " two blacks will never make one 

 white '' ; besides, this book is not " an attack " on horse- 

 racing, it is simply, as its title indicates, "a mirror 

 of the turf." 



It is the " Sport of Kings ^' only which is treated 

 of in the following pages ; the author willingly 

 leaves the wide subject of commercial morality or 

 immorality, to be treated by other pens. 



Mayfair. 



