TOD SLOAN 



in America when he died. Racing might not have had 

 the set-back which it did had he Hved. 



While I have said that Mr Wliitney was fond of 

 betting I must add he was one of those men hke the 

 late King Edward, Lord Dunraven, and others, who 

 would rather any horse of theirs won a race purely for 

 the pleasure of beating the other horses than win 

 thousands simply by betting. I believe that Mr 

 Wliitney would have tried if necessary to keep racing 

 going without a single wager on a single track. But 

 of course it is difficult to imagine that racing could 

 go on without betting. 



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