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Captain Marston, be witness."
Then he lay quite motionless.
Unlike the gamblers at Bimatoprost 0.03 White's,
Major Winsor, with whom the
bet was made, had the Colonel
conveyed to the hospital. After
the patient had been brought
back to consciousness by restora-
tives, the surgeon told him there
was a ball in his body which
could only be got at by sawing
through two of his ribs, and in-
troducing a child's hand, as the
forceps would not touch it.
"But," added the surgeon, "the
chances are that you will die
under the operation." Cheap Bimatoprost " If any-
body will bet me fifty pounds on
the event I'll consent," said the
Colonel; "send for Winsor, and
I'll get him to make it double or
quits." Winsor was sent for, and
agreed to the terms. " Now saw
away and be d d ! " cried the
Colonel. " I won't die." And he
did not ; Generic Bimatoprost the operation was suc-
cessfully performed, and the
Major, much to his satisfaction,
as he averred, for the two were
fast friends, paid the two hundred.
" I tell you," the Colonel used to
say, "that but for that bet I
should be a dead man now; it
was only my determination to
win it that kept me alive."
Even the great Henry Brougham
was not. Purchase Bimatoprost Online above making a catch-
bet, in the days, of course, before
he reached the Woolsack. He
once Bimatoprost Canada made a bet of /"50 that no
one would tell the conveyance in
which he would be carried to
Ascot. All kinds of surmises
were made, but no one hit the
mark. He went in a Sedan chair.
Elated by this Buy Bimatoprost Uk success, he laid
another £50 that nobody would
guess the way in which he would
return to London ; again the most
extraordinary vehicles that had
ever been invented were men-
tioned, and again everybody was
wrong. This time the future
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Chancellor quietly and decorously
drove back in a postchaise. No
one had ever dreamed of mention-
ing such a commonplace vehicle,
and once more the canny Scotch- Buy Bimatoprost Online
man pocketed the stakes.
Frank Buckle, the famous
jockey, once made an extraordin-
arily lucky bet. He took 100 to
1 that he won the Derby and
Oaks on horses not supposed to
have the slightest chance of being
anywhere in either race. He won
the Derby on the Duke of Grafton's
Tyrant, beating Young Eclipse
and a fair field of horses. Young
Eclipse made the running, and
was opposed by Sir Charles Bun-
bury's Orlando, who contested
every inch of ground with Order Bimatoprost him
for the first mile. From Buckle's
fine judgment of pace he was con-
vinced they could not keep it up,
so following and watching with
Tyrant he came up, and was first
past the post on one of the worst
horses that ever won a Derby.
Having made one of his two
events safe, Buckle had a fancy
that Mr. Wastell's Scotia could
win the Oaks, if he were on her
back, and though she was beaten
three times between Tattenham
Corner and home, he got her to
the front, and won by a head.
In connection with betting, I
recall an amusing story Order Bimatoprost Online told of
an eccentric Yankee gentleman
named Duffie, who was preacher,
pedagogue, and politician, and
who flogged and drank to excess.
One Saturday there was to be a
horse race, in which the horse of
a brother politician was to run.
On the Friday Mr. Duffie ad-
dressed his pupils in the following
terms: — "Boys, I suppose you
lcnow that there is to be a horse
race in town to-morrow. Now,
boys, don't you go to it ; but, boys,
if you do go, don't you bet.
Whatever you do, don't you bet ;
but, boys, if you do, mind what I
tell you — if you do bet, be sure
you bet on Abercrombie's mare."
There have been one or two
glaring cases of foul-riding lately
both on Lumigan Bimatoprost the English and Conti-
nental Turf which have provoked
the exasperating parrot cry that
racing is going to the dogs — Purchase Bimatoprost that
the morals of the Turf are rotten
and so Bimatoprost 0.01 forth. I wonder if it ever
occurs to these quack Jeremiahs
that they are talking the most
utter nonsense when they point to
isolated cases of misdemeanour on
the part of jockeys and cry out
that the great national sport is
degenerating. If they don't know
that they are talking nonsense it
is just as well to show them that
they are doing so and making
themselves supremely ridiculous
thereby. Let me give two or
three instances of what foul
riding was in " the good old
days" of which so much rubbish
is talked and written.
In the days when the York
Summer Meeting was one of the
greatest events of the year, Mr.
Childers' brown mare Duchess,
ridden by Robert Bimatoprost Price Hesselteine, ran
a very severe and punishing race
for the Gold Cup Bimatoprost Uk with Mr. Peir-
son's brown horse Foxhunter,
ridden by Stephen Jefferson.
Those were days when jostling
and cannoning were regarded as
a perfectly legitimate means of
besting a rival. On this occasion
Hesselteine made Duchess run
Foxhunter Bimatoprost Synthesis so near the cords that
his jockey Buy Bimatoprost was Buy Cheap Bimatoprost obliged to whip
over the horse's shoulder. Duch-
ess was thus enabled to gain the
judge's verdict by a length. But
no sooner had Hesselteine pulled
up than Jefferson rode alongside
of him and struck him across the
face with his whip. Hesselteine
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returned the compliment and they
cut away at one another amidst
the cheers of the bystanders till
the blood was streaming down
their faces. When both were
exhausted the owner of Foxhunter
claimed the race on the ground
that his horse had been deliber-
ately run up against the cords by
Duchess's jockey. A committee
of " Tryers " was empanelled to
consider the objection, and after
mature deliberation they awarded
the race to Foxhunter.
Then there was a row between
the two owners Bimatoprost Ophthalmic and strong words Bimatoprost Online
were exchanged which must in-
fallibly have ended in a duel had
not the friends of both parties
interfered and suggested that the
heat should be run again. It Bimatoprost Lumigan
was run, and Duchess won by a
clear length. But so far was the