Chapter XI

Difficulty of making money on the Turf--Big
wins--Sporting tipsters and their methods--Jack
Dickinson--"Black Ascots"--Billy Pierse--Anecdotes--Lord
Glasgow--Lord George Bentinck--Lord Hastings--Heavy
betting of the past--Charles II. founder of the English
Turf--History of the latter--Anecdotes--Eclipse--Highflyer--The
founder of Tattersall's--Old time racing--Fox--Lord
Foley--Major Leeson--Councillor Lade--"Louse
Pigott"--Hambletonian and Diamond--Mrs. Thornton's
match--Beginnings of the French Turf--Lord Henry
Seymour--Longchamps--Mr. Mackenzie Grieves--Plaisanterie--Establishment
of the Pari Mutuel in 1891--How the large profits are
allocated--Conclusion 374

INDEX 437

ILLUSTRATIONS

IN COLOUR

FACE PAGE

The Trente-et-Quarante of the Past. From a scarce Print
by Darcis _Frontispiece_

The Beautiful Duchess throwing a Main. By Rowlandson 60

La Bouillotte. From a scarce Print after Bosio 138

The Chaise Match 214

The Palmy Days of the Palais Royal. From a contemporary
Print 258

A Gaming-Table in the Palais Royal 262

Véry's in 1825 276

Plan of Roulette Table, as used at Monte Carlo 348

Betting. By Rowlandson 382

IN BLACK AND WHITE

The Spendthrift. From an Eighteenth-Century Print 26

A Raid on a London Gaming-House 44

Sharpers and Bucks in a Billiard Room 68

Light Come, Light Go 80

A Row in a Fashionable Hell 86

Count d'Orsay calling a Main at Crockford's 98

The Arms of White's _p._ 107

The Gambling-Room at Brooks's. From a Water-colour
Drawing in the possession of the Club 116

The Cock-Fight at Lucknow, with Key. Engraved by
R. Earlom, after Zoffany 194

Roulette in the Eighteenth Century 284

Facsimile Title-Page of "Guide du Spéculateur au Trente-Quarante
et à la Roulette" 298

Gambling at Homburg. Drawn by the late G.A. Sala 308

E.O. on a Country Race-course. By Rowlandson 398

Mrs. Thornton 416