Related article: ranging nominally from £j^o to
^80. The cost to owners of run-
ning their horses is altogether out Thioridazine Price
of proportion to the money to be
won, so the natural inference must
be that the jumping game has an
excellent body of sportsmen for
its patrons. But its reputation is
not at all in keeping with what
one would expect the sequel to
be, and every year we find the
National Hunt Committee im-
plored to exert itself in improving
things. What is roundly averred
is that horses are systematically
pulled and all manner of collusion
indulged in. Given the desire to
do wrong, I presume the jumping
game affords better opportunity
than flat racing. Plenty of people
make a living out of the winter
season under N.H. Rules, and,
seeing what it costs to train Purchase Thioridazine Online horses
and convey them to and from the
racecourses, it is almost obvious
that it cannot be done out of the
stakes won. I have been many
times assured by people most
likely to know and much interested
personally that, if larger stakes
were systematically given, more
owners would be tempted to keep
steeplechasers and hurdleracers.
Whether the realisation of this
would result in larger attendances
is problematical, and it is just the
problem that clerks of the course
would like to see solved for them
beforehand. Our steeplechasing
takes place at the worst time of
the year for the spectator, and no
attraction would draw in the
winter months the numbers that
attend at other seasons of the
year. If stakes are to be in-
creased it must be by a combined
general movement. Giving a big
prize now and then is merely
throwing money away. For the
hurdleracing no one has any sym-
pathy, it being a variant ot sport
that most people who indulge in
it are ashamed of. But it often
receives more attention from
executives than steeplechasing.
An instance was afforded at the
Sandown December meeting, Thioridazine Tablets
where the chief hurdle race was
for a stake of j^3oo, and the chief
steeplechase (dubbed ** great,"
save the mark) for one of /200.
What one would like to see would
be the institution all over the
country of steeplechases with
stakes of from £300 to ;^5oo.
Two steeplechases of the nominal
value of ^500 have been held this
season, and in each case we saw
out the winner of the Grand
National of 1898, the winner of
both races being the most promis-
ing young chaser of the day, Hid-
den Mystery. We are told that
winning such races endangers a
horse's chance for the great
steeplechase of the year, people
talking as if, in the first place,
it was the only race worthy the
attention of owners of Order Thioridazine Online steeple-
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chasers ; and, secondly, as though Purchase Thioridazine
handicappers made it impossible
for a previous winner to win the
Grand National. In no race is
greater consideration paid to top-
weights than in this one, and in
none, as has been proven, have
they better chance of winning. I
will not go so far as to say that
the handicappers of this particular
race pass sleepless nights, but I
know they worry themselves and
each other a good deal by day.
Other people worry them, too,
handicappers having a great deal
to put up with from dissatisfied
owners, to which, I contend, they
should not be subjected, whilst
the Press they always have with
them. Racing officials, I am sur-
prised to find, read and take to
heart criticisms that appear upon
their doings. This seems a great
mistake, especially on the part of
sensitive people, and I understand
that the official handicapper lost
all appetite for his dinner the day
before the Cambridgeshire by
reason of the strictures that were
made on the handicapping of
Oban, who, in the sequel, turned
out to be even worse than the
handicapper painted him. The
Prince of Wales's Steeplechase
at Sandown, run in February, is
made a stake of ;^2oo, nominal,
so that no penalty is entailed upon
the winner at Liverpool. I am
quite prepared to listen to the
argument that the conditions of
the Grand National Order Thioridazine will bear re-
vision when the desire manifests
itself to bring about a general
improvement of steeplechasing.
In the meantime, if the Sandown
race were made one of ;f5oo, the
winner might feel consoled for Buy Thioridazine Online
having a few pounds put on his
back. A system which reduces
the whole steeplechase season to
a one-race affair is a bad one, and
one is glad to see that those who
have the management of Hidden
Mystery make the most of the
present and leave the future to
look after itself. What is wanted
is more inducements of the nature
of the Grand Sefton and Great
Midland Handicap Steeplechases.
Possibly we should then have
more ** Grand National Horses,"
as the term goes.
The chief interest at Sandown
was in the flat races. On the
first day we had a match in the
old style. Sir John Thursby, with
Palmerston, throwing down the
gauntlet to Mr. A. Gold's Villiers,
winner of the whip. The match
was to be over the Beacon Course
distance of 4 miles i furlong and
77 yards, and it was for ;^i,ooo
a side. Having seen Villiers
stay the Beacon Course, and not
being aware that Buy Cheap Thioridazine his easy victory
was much Buy Thioridazine simplified by the break-
ing down of his opponent, Cano-
pus, people felt inclined to favour
his chance. Palmerston is the
six-year-old horse which Sir J. B.
Maple's people could do nothing
with, and which was therefore
sold. Sir J. Thursby was the
buyer, Mr. Thursby having satis-
fied himself that bad training,
and not lack Thioridazine Hydrochloride of merit, was the
fault, and the sequel has been
that Palmerston won four races
oflf the reel. He was lucky to get
home this time, for he broke down
rather badly directly after passing
the post. The race has been
none too kindly criticised, the
suggestion being that contests of
this length are a form of cruelty
to animals. But we hear nothing
of this sort in connection with the
Grand National, the distance of
which is three furlongs farther
than the Beacon Course, to say
nothing of the fences being the
stiffest in the kingdom. Usually
we see the Grand National called
a magnificent spectacle. Why,
then, should a four-miles fiat race
be cruelty to animals ? It is
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