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ferred. It is difficult to give up malpractices when 

 they are lucrative. What can be in worse taste 

 than to advertise a 1001. Plate winner to pay back 

 20?.? Why not have the honesty to call it an 

 801. Plate ? The winner of this fictitious lOOZ. 

 carries the extra penalty for winning 1001. 

 According to the 64th Kule the deduction is not 

 allowed. The winner is therefore doubly imposed 

 upon. 



The owner of a racehorse in the United King- 

 dom is like Cain, the hand of every man who 

 profits by the trade is against him. From the 

 moment a horse leaves home to meet his engage- 

 ments, hay, oats, stabling, accommodation for the 

 groom, rise in value 100 per cent. — imposed upon 

 by racing committees, pillaged by the lessees, 

 cheated by the publicans, liable to be poisoned 

 by the sinners, and certain to be anathematized 

 by the saints. The horse returns with a cough, 

 or lame by running on some atrocious course, and 

 the lad in charge, who was a trustworthy servant, 

 is probably contaminated by the company he has 

 associated with at the pubKc-houses. 



I have enumerated the golden nuggets which 

 inspire clever speculators to establish races within 

 a reasonable distance of the metropolis. With high 

 patronage and a well attended ring, and heavy 



