Identifier: allroundsportwit00dyke (find matches)
Title: All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Dykes, T
Subjects: Horses Sports
Publisher: London : Fores, Piccadilly, W.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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wasthe eager query from those who couldnt see. Why something in yellow, and a red belt. Yellow and red belt, Backbiter, shouted Brownside. Backbiter ! Backbiter wins— Backbiter walks in. She does, by all thats holy, cried Mr. Quarrier, as he sawhis horse pass the first. I must try and get to the bottomof this. Its the queerest thing Ive ever experienced in racing. Eh. What about Gingerbeer now.-* shouted his friend, Ive sixty to ten about him—my old hay and corn man.Nice owner of horses you are to give a fellow tips. Tom, you must help me to get to the bottom of this. Imust know out of sheer curiosity, even though it should costme a ten pound note. That Gingerbeer does not know who
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A Race for Themselves. i6i I am, so get a hold of him and over a bottle for a fiver helltell us all about it. Half an hour afterwards, Mr. Quarrier and Mr. Brownsidewere seated in a room in that well-known old hostelry, the GrevGoat, in Carlisle, with a bottle of Moet and Chandon, andchampagne glasses on the tabic. So you would like to know how I knew about this Back-biter. Well, you promises not to tell, so Ill let you hear. Mr Bittocks who trains for this Mr. Freestone Hang the scoundrel, said Mr. Quarrier to himself, has hesold me, I wonder .-• He comes, said the other, laying down his champagnewhich he had been swilling, down here, and he says, Flappsis going off to Carington to ride there with the half-past fourtrain, and the Selling Race is at five oclock. You see JackWilson (thats Harry Hudsons lad), Ginger, and tell him I wanthim to ride Backbiter, so hes not to go away in the morningif hes nothing else keeping him. Well, I tells Wilson, andGardner and some of his pals about

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