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out daily tips by telegraph, or pen nightly letters 

 to all who will pay the requisite fee, and according 

 to their own accounts of what they achieve their 

 success as tipsters is enormous ; but it may be 

 fairly stated on behalf of the gentlemen who cater 

 sporting news for the daily press, that considering 

 the difficulties incidental to the formulating of 

 their prophetic work, they do wonderfully well, 

 although it has been often stated against them, 

 as a matter of reproach, that they " follow the 

 money " — in other words, tip those horses which 

 are being or are likely to be heavily backed. 



