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NOT A STRICTLY FASHIONABLE VIEW The Kngllsh Jockey Club long ago disassociated itself from the betting side of racing which causes the Winning Post to remark We have never been quite able to understand the mentality o The Jockey Club in regard to the betting question because it is utterly inconsistent with the policy which existed in the last century when they did not think H Infra dig to adjudicate on betting dis ¬ putes even of a minor character The Jockey Club knows perfectly well that racing would soon be as dead us the dodo If it were not for the gambling instinct which creates the universal public interest in sport Hundreds of thousands of those who find the sinews of war which indubitably keep the turf alive do not care two straws for the subtleties of thoroughbred breeding Some of them hardly know a horse from a cow so to speak It Is the same pverywliwe
