244 RACING, PAST AND PRESENT. 
robbery?! But the subject of betting generally will occupy 
our attention in the next chapter. 
1 The following appeared in the Evening Standard, of Friday, March the 30th, 
1877 :—‘‘ In the list of bankrupts figured a nobleman, heir to large estates, who 
had given bills for large amounts ; amongst other items stood conspicuously one 
of £2,000, given to Mr. S D 
Mr. K , money, and handed him the acceptance. The valuable con- 
sideration that was to be given for the bill was to consist of cigars; but on exam- 
ination it turned out that only a box of the value of £5 was supplied to his 
lordship. 
, who of course owed his friend, a 
