It is with profound regret that we notice the tendency
of the Government to .weaken on the question of forbidding horse-racing. We love the horse as much as any Englishman alive or dead, and are a great deal more anxious than most bookmakers or followers of " Captain Coe " and other prophets to maintain that. glorious creature, the British thoroughbred. He is deserving of all the honour he has received. But to attempt to make out at a moment like this that our thoroughbred stock will be destroyed if there is no racing is absurd. In truth, this agitation in favour of racing is mainly a gambling and not a real horse-breeding movement. The well-meaning. people who bombard the authorities with pleas for racing are in the-last resort, we believe, moved by those who make money out of racing and betting. Not the least important of these are those newspapers which pay special attention to the "odds," and which are bought mainly because they give racing news and racing " tips."
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