Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1856-12-27

HIN, Bennett, &c,, popularity supposed to make
/ them at all figures, from 100000. to 5000L Foal
books have gone out of fashion, bat Mr.. Harry
Hill has l0,00Ol. yearling one. and lays bis hun
dred, seventy-ive, or fifty to.one odds, according
asahe fancies the pedigree of the yearling he lays
against. -
Perhaps at present, Frank Garner, farmer in
Surrey, is one of the oldest Ringmen we have, and
visited Newmarket last year for his fieth cOnsec-
utive season and Fred Swindells is one of the
cleverestr When the " "Swindes attack once
opens on horse, ut rarely fails to be his crack of
doom. The gentlemen of the Ring hang very much
together when they fancy horse. Flying Dutch
mans and West Australians we're decidedly
genteman's year, and so many Of them were with
Iin the mystic circle which knew of the great Fy-
field trial, that Teddington cost tire ring something
/ like 200,00W Votigeur's, on the contrary, was
" gentleman-gentleman's year, as yalets and
tcoachmen won so immensely while Little Won
der's and Merry Monarch's were the greatest tri-
umphs the Ring has known.
| Since the abolition of the betting-houses wlTich
dealt an immense blow to the Ring by cutting off
the supplies which dribbled in through them from
all parts Of the country, and so found their way to
The Corner, Mr.. Davis has occupied a much less
prominent part in the eyes of the public and he
has, in fact, almost ceased to make a, Derby book
He has made one as high as 100000 ,sbut now he
scarcely pencils Derby bet till a fortnight before
IleSdyS WIN LFtttn ulaI ne mas lOSt all
his money on the Derby and Oaks, while on the St.
Leger and at post-bettRg, he is uniformly lucky,
and great advocate for the abolition of the p p
system-a measure which (if it could be enforcedl
would, to minds, not allay Turf scandal, but
rather increase it. We believe that he made his
| first bet Of halta-crown at the Silver Cup in Gro
mer-street Gray 's-inn-road about fourteen years
ago, when he was in Mr. Cu6itt S eMploy. A long
time elapsed before be entered any public betting
hnF bo fbo
| laying point or two more than were obtanable
inside. When he began to be 4 man of mark, this
difference was taken cOpious advantage Of and
in self-defence he went within His first heavy
hit is said to have been for - 000l over The Cur
for the Cesarewiteh Hotspor's not winning the
! Derby. made difference to him of 00Q0i., and
bBarbarian's failure Of nearly twice that sum-
The Londoners also backed Voltigeur to such an
extent with him, that nearly 40,000l was paid
over his list-cOunter alone about " the lusty Rich
mOnd stallion" He was also bit heavily in Ted
dington's year, ana the 15,000L chcque which he
sent Mr.. Gre7ille the morning after the race,
stamped him at once as very mine of Peru.
Mrs. Taft and Truth were great pulls for him that
autumn, and the public set the joint gainsat 45,-
000L After MS winter Derby deposits came in
| be was supposed to have. entered ON in his 1852
campaign with l30 ,000l. at the Westminster Bank
(whose heads would, the story ran, rise to ae-
commodate him at any hour of the night y but on
sfis as we'll as every other calculation a. be the
same more or less must be the conveyancing
motto ever present to the readers mind.
! His constant habit has been to come to latter
sails after the Derby, however great his losses
and pay on the Monday, instead of waiting tilthe
Conventional settling Tuesday and while his lists
were in force, he returned every night from New
market TO attend to them, and proyide-the needful
for paying next day. In fact all his dealings have
been based on the g broadstone of honor" and
conducted with business-like precision such as
we may almost IN vain hope to see again. We
never remember hisnerYe failing but once. and that
was when Bon Not won the Liverpool Cup. He
was just beginning to fire heavily into this strange
3000-g guinea imposter, when he found himself com
PEELED, in consequence of a nervous headache, TO
close his book and Sit down, and, as luck would
have it, he won 3,000l. ,instead of losing nearly
twice that amount, =
As horse-mart Tattersall's has not its equal IN
the world. 1t was founded by AIR. Richard Tat
! tersall about the year 1893. He was training
groom to the last Duke of Kingston, husband to
Mrs Chudleigh, who figures so eauivocally in Hor
ace Walpole's g Letters and SThe State Trials. 1"
Mr. Tattersall was the owner of the famous High
flyer, bought of-the Earl of Bolingbroke for two
| thousand fvehundred pounds, and a most FORUM
ate purchase it was for him, he realize1 large
fortune by his winnings and after services and
such was his gratitude to the celebrated horse that
trait g. .HighHyer not to be seld.''~
The gateway opposite the small grass inclosure
before referred to leads to the Auction-yard. In
the center is pump, surmOunted by the effgy of
a fox and covered by a dome, onawbich is placed
a bust of George IN.-when Prnce'of Wales. On
the right as you enter the yard is the run for the
horses to be sold and the Stable adjoining gener-
ally contains some of the more valuable animals
to be submitted to the fortune of the hammer On
the left Of the yard placed carriages of every
construction, waiting purchasers; and passage
leads to the other stables which contain stalls for
horses. The days Of sale are Mondays and Hhurs-
days, when the ordinary quiet and gentlemanly
appearance of the establishment are changed into
bustle and excitement. The frequenters Of horse
sales are not ordinarily the most respectable mem
bers of the community but at Tattersal's the in
fuenee of the place seems to affect the eOndnct OF
the.yisitors and it is rare indeed that any cause
| for complaint arises. There is counting house
in the right hand corner of the yard, where the
business of paving and receiving upOnsales is con-
Quoted, thus separating the coninerclai from the
sporting transactions of the establishment. The
high character which Tattersall has malntaIned
since its foundation has exercised most beneficial
influence upon the sporting world, and made afOt
Fovcr-scrupulous class of fnen-we mean 'the
Ring'-regard the preservation of character as the
only passport to-sueeess. -Horse-raciDg Is pas
sion with every class of Euglshmen, and betting
| seems to be necessary consequence. Much evil,
no doubt arises from the practice; but, after al,
it is quite as honest as dabbng in the Funds. or
Specializing in Time bargains on the Stock Ex-
change Tattersallfs has done much to correct the
evils of betting by making the not o{er-scrupulous
professors Of Il respect the engagements entered
into by them, excluding from the precincts OF .Ihe
Corner" any declared defaalber. Levanters are
occasionally heard of but, taken as body, the
! Rinc nen.are very exact In the discharge ofeen-
gagements which must, in nearly every instance,
depend upon honor and, for the best reason,
their existence as betting mendepending upon their