DECADENCE OF THE TURF.
The following curious paragraph appears in 1 Bell's Life" We have difped pretty deeply into all the records of the past that have had anything' to do with the turf, and we find that there were five times as many patrons of the turf claiming dukedoms thirty years ago as we can boast of at the present day. Earls have become scarcer and scarcer, lords of every* fewtir and fewer, and baronets have been dropping away by tens: our statistical in veatig' . tions having,further informed U3 that men of no position a quarter of a cei - tury ago now holdirg higlvpositioi s on the turf, and if the present increasing scale of rank uu.es in connection "with the tiirl, and its fortunate magnates grow up out of those who have risen from obscurity through the money got out of the pockets of foolish young lords by racing, the question is, will the turf be an aristocratic institution, or even respectable in another quarter of a century ?"
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 36, 8 October 1869, Page 3
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170DECADENCE OF THE TURF. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 36, 8 October 1869, Page 3
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