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with the Derby, Tattersall's has paled its fires, betting 

 being now mostly transacted at ' the clubs,' many of 

 which have been so constituted as to admit of that 

 class of business being carried on ; and at these the 

 chief bookmakers, or their representatives, may be 

 seen, except, of course, when a race-meeting of more 

 than usual importance is taking place, when the 

 pencillers Avill be found in ' the rings,' those of them 

 who never leave London excepted. When a commission 

 is required to be executed, Tattersall's is no longer, as 

 of yore, resorted to ; the necessary transactions can be 

 carried out at the Victoria or Albert, or other 

 clubs, in which place a horse entered in the Derby, or 

 in a big handicap, can be backed to win pretty con- 

 siderable sums of money, quite as much, probably, as 

 an owner may wish to bag over the victory of his 

 animal The betting which now takes place at ' Tatt's ' 

 is not a fiftieth |)art of what it was wont to be in the 

 days of old, when tens of thousands of pounds used to 

 change hands as if they were so many half-crowns. 

 On days, indeed, when the ' betting at Tattersall's ' is 

 sometimes eagerly looked for, there is none, that re- 

 nowned resort, as the newspapers proclaim, having 

 been ' drawn blank.' One or two old-fashioned news- 

 papers still, however, quote * Monday's betting.' 



Those who remember Tattersall's in the days of its 

 greatness as the chief money-market of the turf, will 

 long regret, as Admiral Rous once said ' the disap- 

 pearance of the old Corner, the gravel walk, the green 

 lawn, the very cow — so emblematical of milk — and 

 the plane-tree, under whose shade mysterious books 

 have been scrutinized and judgment recordea.' At 



