314 THE WORK JUSTIFIED. 
Low in his attacks on the turf writes on the slenderest infor- 
mation, and that more often incorrect than not. But if one 
more instance be required to show the emptiness of the 
charge so gravely made, it may be found in the following 
question, as simply put as it is simply answered. 
“Ts the owner to back this colt,” he asks in reference to 
an animal for which it is supposed a large sum has been 
given, “against a hundred horses: twenty or thirty of which 
(and of these many, for anything he knows, better than his 
own) are to start?” “No,” 
The fact is, owners not only back their horses against 
a hundred they have never seen before, but against double 
that number or more, any one of which may be better 
than their own. I may add in conclusion, that the Pro- 
fessor is not singular in his aspersions of the doings of 
owners, trainers, and jockeys. Other writers glibly attribute 
motives which have no existence ; amongst them Mr. Lawrence, 
from wham I have on more than one occasion quoted. But 
an answer to one, is an answer to all; and it is only necessary 
that that answer should be a direct and complete refutation, 
in language unmistakable, fearless, and frank. 
I HAVE now said all I have to say strictly bearing on the 
subject which in the commencement of this work I proposed 
to treat. I have resisted throughout the temptation to intro- 
duce anecdote, even when relevant, lest in so doing the essen- 
tial purport of the treatise, which is to be directly serviceable 
to the individual rather than amusing to the multitude, should 
be frustrated by the interposition of extraneous matter. The 
nature of this temptation may be illustrated here by a few 
examples, not uninstructive in themselves. 
It would have been easy to relate how on one occasion a 
