8 Horse Racing. 



betting, 2,000?. may be picked up in three days 

 by a clever handicapping lessee out of the pockets 

 of the liberal horse-owners. It is from the public 

 who enjoy the sport the proprietors of courses 

 should draw their legitimate gains, and not from 

 the ow^ners of horses, to whom they are indebted 

 for existence and for every shilling of their revenue, 

 but wTong-headed racing men are always to be 

 found, who, blind to the public good and to the 

 interests of the Turf, conspire with the lessees to 

 promote their own private interests. There is an 

 old truism, that when we suffer evils to exist beyond 

 a certain point, the remedy is at hand — wanted a 

 Hercules to cleanse this Augaean stable. 



