Excerpt from The Race Track Swindle: A Satire The vile work at the starting gate, the rank decisions of the judges, the doping of horses, the crookedness of jock eys, the treachery of owners and the rascality of books, have caused many disagreeable scandals, which have, in a measure, opened the eyes of the public, and yet, lured by the fascina tion of the game, they continue to go in trainloads and gamble while they have a dollar left. The game is so corrupt that it has been suppressed in sev eral states, and in others the battle against it is still going on. It has blighted lives, ruined homes, wrecked fortunes, and caused rivers of tears to ow. The insane asylums, alms houses and jails are filled with its victims, and considering everything, the racetrack swindle is a mighty evil which every law-abiding citizen should endeavor to suppress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."