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good work to follow. What may, however, 

 be very properly charged against the Jockey 

 Club is that, being a dealer in racing itself, 

 it is wrong for it to regulate the racing of other 

 companies ; it is, in reality, as if one firm of 

 tailors were to constitute itself the supreme head 

 of the trade, and say to all other tailors : " You 

 shall do as I tell you ; you must cut your cloth 

 as I dictate, and sell at the price I name." 

 The Club has in its day done much to further 

 the interests of the turf, but much remains yet 

 for it to do — not so much, however, in the 

 devising of big stakes to be run on its own race- 

 ground, but in various reforms incidental to 

 race-running and in codifying and revising the 

 laws of the turf. 



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THE END. 



CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS. 



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