152 HINTS TO horsemen; or, 



Steeple chasing lias of late j-ears become a fertile 

 source, as regards making money, and much money 

 has been made by it : so there has by picking pockets. 

 The energy of the police has greatly marred this accom- 

 plishment ; and the somewhat too glaring robberies 

 by the first-mentioned mode of committing them, 

 have greatly lessened their field of action. I merely 

 speak of them here as among other modes of making 

 money by horses ; but let not the reader imagine 

 that by steeple-chasing he can, under ordinary cir- 

 cumstances, do so in an honourable, or commonly 

 honest way — that is, by running his horses to win, if 

 they can. "With a very few exceptions, I neither know, 

 nor have heard, of any man who has made money by 

 steeple-chasing ; that is, by his horses running to 

 win. Hundreds have by running to lose, not money, 

 but the race, which we must admit is by far the 

 surest mode of winning money : it is true the 

 favourite being destined to lose, gets, perhaps, the 

 most dangerous horse out of the way of him who 

 runs with the intention of winning, and would be in 

 his favour greatly if the clique would let him win ; 



