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would so act as to be " found out," who would 

 venture, for instance, to instruct a jockey to 

 "pull" his horse, when the animal could be so 

 " doctored " before leaving the stable as to render 

 its chance hopeless. As a general rule, a pailful 

 of water will " do the trick," although, as a once 

 popular trainer, now deceased, was heard to say 

 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, "sometimes even two pails 

 won't stop the beggars from winning." At all 

 events, when it has been determined by interested 

 parties that a horse shall run to lose a race it has 

 been entered for — and such arrangements are 

 common enousfh — nothing^ is easier than to make 

 sure that it shall do so, and that the horse selected, 

 in the event of the public fancying him, shall be 

 made a market horse, and be " milked " for the 

 benefit of those interested : the losing of a race 

 may at any time be ensured, and there are scores 

 of "turf dairymen" who are reputed adepts in 

 the use of the milking pail. 



There is no other business, perhaps, which 

 offers so many opportunities for successful fraud 

 as horse-racing, and that for the best of all reasons : 

 the chicanery that is prevalent does not render 

 those who practise it amenable to the criminal 

 law, turf crimes being without the pale of legal 

 action. When, therefore, the owner of a horse, 

 looking ahead, conspires with a bookmaker or 

 other confederate to deceive the public by enter- 

 ing an animal for a race which it is not intended 

 the horse shall win, it is not the interest of either 

 to say a word to outsiders about the arrangement, 

 while those whose bad fortune it is to be deceived 

 are without legal remedy. Persons foolish enough 

 to make bets in the hope that a given horse may 



