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thing else, and the quickest way out of that trouble is to shoot the animal. I. Save been told that by in expert In the presence of and within hour. ing of my horse Abbot's Trace. Horses are such aureenblé friends that they ask no questions, they puss no criticism. To console the horse I then said, 'Don't worry, Ah Dis- racli said in the House of Commons, 'A day will come when you will hear me. He gave three nods of ad- proval.
Lord. Dewar, speaking at the Gimcrack Club dinner recently
"My apology for referring to this Bald that the totalisator combined matter is that I have to thank the principles, resources, and potential-son of that horse for the honoured ities which had proved vital to the position I find myself in now, progressive prosperity of horse breeding and racing in the other: countries, and had proved success ful.
"Someone, stated recently," he said, "that gambling was immoral because it was getting, monov for "I have an idea," he said, "that nothing. I shall make a confession; the tole will not be universally confessions may be good for the heralded to our racecourses on a soul, but bad for the reputation. tidal wave of enthusiasm. It will be The lost bet I had was on my own threatened by many problems and horse in the Derby-in that caso I Assafied by many critics. We are gave money for nothing. An own all critics, fow are connoisseurs. A er could not be clanned as a yam- wave of pessimism always accom-bler by having a small bet on his panies the birth of great trutha own horse in the Derby, because the same might be said about twins. I know he could get absolution from "Patience," he said, "Is the greatest the Elders of the Scottish Presby of all shock absorbers. The only terlan Kirk. They consider that no thing you can get in a hurry la sin. trouble. We must not elope with the idea that reforms will come as an eclipse or an earthquake. The age of miracles is past unless there is someone here that can work them now. Let us have an open mind on this question-minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.'
"The "tote' will bring things home to you that you have never seen be- fore-ne your laundryman some- times does. If you want credit from the 'Lote' you will find it is colder than'a banker's heart.
"The bote' will disillusion the Illusions of the sceptics. It has come to stay with us," he said.
"If those in other countries can make it a success go can it be made A success in this country. When nny big administrative departure comes along the British people know how to get it established.
"This is a new departure in Eng lish statecraft, and the present Gov- ernment has had the courage to e8 tablis the principle. Of course, the other, political parties opposed the measure. The great misfortune to mankind is that only those poli- ticians out of office know how to solve great problems. It is for those in the arena of, racing to assist now and to take occasion by the forelock. Opportunity should be grasped during the lifetime of the opportunity.
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"A Scotch lady asked her mini- ster. Would it be a sin if I felt pleased if a gentleman called me! pretty? The minister looked up and down at the somewhat homely- looking example of womanhood, and said: "No sin could be imputed! to you, but a grave responsibility would rest with the gentleman."
"In racing you should be born under the astrological sign that indicates great hopefulness. When I first started, hope sprang buoyant. The first horse I ever had won for me the first time out, the Hyde Park Pinte, over 80 years ago. I then' imagined I had the following year's Derby safely in my pocket, but no; for years my experience was a re- cord of racing catastrophes, Counsel said to a witness in court: Did you see the catastrophe? The witness replied; 'I am the catas- trophe."
"I never had to go to the expense of engaging detectives to sleep with any of my horses," said Lord Dewar. "On the Turf, to him thaki hath shall be given the experience of lesing. Lucky is the man who does not believe in luck; if you wait for a stroke of good fortune, you may wait until you get a stroke of paralyis.
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"Nothing is certain in racing except its uncertainty, and there in nothing so uncertain as a sure thing? When you hear a man яay, 'Accidents will happen,' you may "Gambling has gone on ever since he pretty certain he has been doing the day Moses dropped the slules something he ought not to have and broke the ten Commandments," done. Why is it that some husbands said Lord Dewar. "We all endeav-tremble when the wife saya in a our to keep the Ten Commandments soft voice, I want to say something
those who know anything about to
No you'?
wife them. We have been making laws due a gambling husband un- for a thousand years, but we have | jess he- IR
steady win- done nothing to equal the Ten Cohner. Racing is made up of unlucky! maniments,
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Retting Tax.
"Caal your bread on the blood- stocks sales and you will be pretty "The belting tax," he said, "does lucky if you ever see it again," he not seem to be popular in some dir said. "Nobody really valuca F cetions, but what tax is popular? thing till somebody else wants it. What, is lacking is a plan to raise There is always somebody eagerly revenite without taxation, or dis- cover some process of painless extrying to dive into something that somebody else is frantically striving traction of taxes. Income-tax is
to scramble out of. Cheap blood- punishment for being industrious stock is much too cheap. and thrifty. The less money a man
has the less he has to worry over Disappointment and Success.
anld "Disappointment,"
his income-bax.
Lord
"Many people who are not amused Dewar, "is the offspring of expec pay the amusement tax. The belation. Your two-year-old may be a
ing tax, I consider, is own brother to the amusement tax, for I have hero, and, as a three-year-old, a zero. On the turf nothing so observed that those who bet go about it joyously and jauntily with rapidly recedes as success. out any seeming great effort, aud when they win they pay the tax. It is hard to have to pay the betting tux, but it is much harder not to have to pay it.
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"In racing stables the trainer gives the horse a carrot at the end of the day-that is more than some owners got at the end of the season.
"It is a wise horse that knows fla "In this country we cherish-old own starting price, and it's n wisa institutions," he said, "and the owner that knows more than the bookmaker is one of them. When a racing prophets. Owners," he add- man says his word is as good as hled, "lice telling their friends all bond, get the bond--but the honest about the chances of their horse in bookmaker's ward is as good as his race, but it is a great responsibil bend, His commercial existence deity, for when you give a tip it is pends on it. It is surprising to like lending money; it is better for think of the millions of money that both parties to arrange some con-t
palley structive
of pro- are furned over on the bookmaker's.
tection against si of word, and that so few disputes oc-friendship. It is more bless. ed to give than to lend, and it "With the "tote" silently register-| costs about the same. If you want ing without fault or favour, the to know the value of money, try to welsher and the Derby dog will pass borrow Home. into history," said Lord Dewar,
"I feel. I am here under falaç "and our
will be racecourses vacuum-cleaned of a hotbed of pretences. I am mindful that I am other undesirables with speckled indebted for my presente here to the Ingenuity of others the train- reputations,"
er, Fred Darling, who, through an- He told a story of a small country xious vigilance, delivered the horse race meeting where two local in-in the padock fit and well for the dividuals were watching a man who, they were convinced, was a weleher. Gimcrack Stakes; the jockey, Gor- One remarked, "That welsher will don, Richarda, who, through his get into hot water before the day genius, piloted the horse first past
the post., is over." The other said, "No, he's
"To those two past masters in going in the horse trough."
"Bloodstock breeding is irresis, their particular calling, I gratefully tibly attractive," said Lord Dewar. give the credit for my position here "I know of no greater joy, no high could not have done without the to-night, along with another. We ér human felicity than watching | the young foat gambolling by the other. The owner would never have: side of its damn in the paddock. been missed, but the other one was You anxiously wait to see if as a essential-he could not be with us yearling, it is growing in the right to-night, owing to circumstances dimensions, and you endeavour to over which he had no control, trace a trait of some forbear in it. Then you will be told your soil is wrong and that you will never breed a winner. Blood will tell; breed is stronger than pasturo.
* Abbot's Traçe,
"Ho is at present sleeping peace-. fully upon wheat straw in a stable on the Berkshire Downs-The Black Abbot,"
"Some men do not get <dl they want, and others do not get all they .de-
"If you have a sire that has never nerve, but as the Greek philosopher won classic honours," he said, "you said, 'Enough, and more than en- will be reminded that such sires ough, has your kindness enriched have ruined more studs than any- me.'"
29, 1928.
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London, Nov. 27. An important chapter in the bis- tory of India will be completed this' afternoon with the closure of the fillan States Committee's inquiry.
Since October 15 this Committee, which is considering the relations of the Inillan States, the Crown and British India, has met 16 times.
Sir Leslie Scott, K.C., counsel for the Indian Princes, has been the chief figure in the Inquiry. To him was given the task of outlining the Princes' grievances and their sug rested remedies,
Page by pago he has gone through the evilence contained in five print- ed books of foolscap size, cach con- Laining some 500 pages,
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This has involved the quoting of nearly 300 cases from 130 different States of alleged violations of the treaties.
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"Returning to England in May, he, in conjunction with other dis- Unguished counsel, drew up a legal opinion on the position. Since then he has been working day and night on the ease."
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