56 A MIRROR OF THE TURF. 



well. When anything exciting occurs — when a 

 giant roar is set up, it is of course " the voice 

 of the people" that is heard — it is the horny 

 handed "sons of toil" chiefly who rush to New 

 Barnes on the great racing days, and in every 

 respect the scene presented is a contrast to the 

 shows of Ascot and Goodwood, where the " silks 

 and satins " of the upper ten outshine the cottons 

 of Lancashire. But the aim of its promoters 

 is achieved, inasmuch as it brings plenty of 

 grist to their mill, ten thousand shillings counts 

 as five hundred pounds, and ten times that 

 amount is "money,' even in "brass-loving" 

 Lancashire. 



There is abundance of racing at Manchester, 

 many of the handicaps being enriched by the 

 addition of munificent sums of money. But in 

 respect to the " added money," is it all gold 

 that glitters even at Manchester ? It has been 

 complained at any rate that, when the manage- 

 ment seem to give a pound, they in reality only 

 give half of that sum ; they get back, such is 

 the accusation made, a moiety of what they 

 give in entrance fees or in shares of surplus 

 money from the disposal of winners of selling 

 races. In this matter of what is called " added 

 money," a writer, who comments on the subject, 

 explains that such sums must be taken with 

 the proverbial pinch of salt. For instance, in 

 the matter of a Nursery plate in which a hundred 

 pounds is given from the race fund, it must be 

 taken into account that thirty-two subscribers 

 pay three sovereigns each, so that in such case 

 all that is really given is four pounds, the sub- 

 scribers running their horses for ninety-six pounds 



