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they take part. The pronounced "stayers "are 

 easily named, and, as a rule, these only will be 

 backed in long-distance races. In Cup contests, 

 for instance, the betting is in many cases nil, or at 

 all events extremely limited, which renders such 

 struggles distasteful to the betting division of our 

 turfites. It is not so in the case of other races. 

 There is abundant scope for betting in connec- 

 tion with the Lincoln Handicap, the Goodwood 

 Stewards' Cup, and similar fixtures. The 

 Cambridgeshire, too, is usually a good betting 

 race for the bookmakers ! In the fast run 

 scrambles over six or seven furlongs, it is, in most 

 cases, very difificult to pick the winner when from 

 eight to fourteen horses are contending, hence a 

 great amount of betting becomes incident to such 

 races, and it is the betting element which plays 

 the chief part in modern horse-racing ; but, as 

 it may be taken for granted that most of the 

 members of the Jockey Club are themselves 

 betting men, any reform of the kind indicated 

 will be slow to make its appearance. 



Of " added money " and other details of Jockey 

 Club legislation it is not necessary to say more 

 than that a better definition of added money than 

 that in use would be a benefit to all con- 

 cerned. The Club has the power to decree what 

 it pleases, and the sooner it exercises still greater 

 authority in all such matters the better. It may 

 be found in the end that it will be desirable to 

 classify meetings and grade the stakes ac- 

 cordingly. 



With respect to the amounts of money run 

 for, some reforms have already been established, 

 and it may prove that by lessening the number of 



