Related article: at 20 to I, and also professed to have a still better rod in pickle for the Goodwood Cup and Stakes, Vepesid Price and for this good thing no more than seven stamps was asked. The Derby of 1857 was, as most racing people know, won by Mr. TAnson's flying mare Blink Bonny, and in that year a Mr. Charles Buckthorn advertised his circular of information, which he declared would put eveirybody on the right scent. Buy Vepesid It unravelled the Malton mystery, peeped into the dangerous training stables, and after Purchase Vepesid trotting out the likely ones, selected a nag which would run in from Tattenham Corner an easy winner. In what way the Malton mystery was solved it is not said, so Mr. Buckthorn was just as likely to have plumped against as for Blink Bonny. Sundry specious efforts weie made to induce the public to in- vest, but Mr, Playfair was, I believe, the first to adopt the ** no winner no pay " system, and he was so certain that he knew the winner of the National in 1857 ^^^^ ^6 invited people to send to him for information, and not to pay unless the horse wts- A somewhat new line, however, was struck out by a Mr. Joyce, who published what he called J 1899.] THE TURF AND ITS TIPSTERS. 369 *' the Art of Betting," a guide to the luckless though haphazard and reckless speculation, and contain- ing, it was asserted, the celebrated Captain Barclay's secret, by which that gentleman kept up a four - in - hand, and puzzled the s{x>rting world for twenty years. Although the Captain was so long a time in finding out this great secret, Mr. Joyce was con- tent to sell it for the absurd sum of five shillings. Probably as long as racing has been an amusement there have been people just as greedy to make money over it as was Madame de Goncourt, out of whom Benson and his gang of ** sworn bookmakers" extracted so many scores of pounds; and perhaps were it not for the igno- rance and cupidity combined of those Buy Cheap Vepesid who hardly know a black horse from a white one, the tip- ster's business would fall to the ground to-morrow. Some of the readers of Baily doubtless remember that some years ago a tipster advertised in the name of " Coles," and it may also be within their recollection that the late Mr. Comyns Cole, who wrote the introductions for the Field newspaper, was also the valued '* Van Driver " for this magazine. One day at Good- wood an excited gentleman ap- peared at the Press Room and asked whether *' Mr. Coles " were present. The name was not quite correct, but someone in the room suggested that Mr. Cole might probably be the person of whom he was in search. Mr. Cole was seated in his usual corner writing, and to him the excited punter Order Vepesid Online rushed, with the expression — '' Why the devil did you not send me your finals ? " Only Purchase Vepesid Online those who knew the late Mr. Cole's personal appearance and dignified bearing can realise completely the effect this question had upon Order Vepesid him. Always suave in manner, he rose, stroked his well- trimmed moustache, and suggested that there might be some mistake, for, as he never sent out tips he necessarily never gave finals, but the punter was implacable. ** I sent you a guinea," he said, " to receive some finals, and the d — d things have never come." Mr. Cole protested that this was a case of mistaken identity, and eventually the representative of another paper explained to the gentleman that there was a tipster of the name of Coles, for whom he had mistaken our re- spected friend. At that moment the real Mr. Coles, who was a blaze of jewellery, was sunning himself on the lawn, in utter ignorance of the scene which was being enacted no more than a few yards ofT. Whether the speculator eventually succeeded in getting his finals, or whether they came off, I do not know. The resources of the tipster are certainly varied, and it was early in the eighties that one of the fraternity set up in business and Certainly showed a remarkable amount of impudence. There was a paper at that time which asked its readers to fill up a coupon stating who, in their opinion, was the most Buy Vepesid Online trust- worthy tipster of the day. Here was a chance far too good to be lost. The man in question bought up the papers with no niggard hand ; he of course gave his own name under a variety of aliases, and in so doing he went to enor- mous cost, but the scheme paid, of course, and he came out nearly if not quite, the head of the poll, and from that time money poured in upon him. I remember once hearing a man say at Ascot that in three days something like 1,200 letters. 370 BAILY S MAGAZINE. (XlT each containing a sovereign, had reached him as the price of a tip for certain races. It need hardly be said that the advertising tipster is probably in bed when the horses are at exer- cise, and knows very little about horses at all. If he happen to be in luck, he may have a hun- dred or more people to whom he can telegraph daily, and of course it is hard lines if he cannot now and then manage to spot a winner among them. Tipsters, however, must not be confused with those who really do their best to supply their patrons with trustworthy information. The energetic and best known horse watchers, though frequently very bad judges of racing, at least earn their money. They are up betimes, they detail to readers of the papers for which they correspond a good deal of what is of value to them, and one must never forget, what- ever may be said about touting or watching, that the publication of training news saves many a man from loss, for no sooner is a horse missed from exercise than the fact is stated in the newspapers. At the present day it would be very difficult for the most unprincipled person or stable to gammon