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[talkingpiffle]

‘The death of Paul Alexis was a local event of an importance that almost swamped last Saturday’s cricket match, and the revolutionary proposal to turn the disused Quaker meeting-house into a cinema; while the arrival of the Wilvercombe police to make inquiries about the movements of Mr Martin had raised the excitement to fever pitch. Darley felt strongly that, if this kind of thing was going to happen, it might get into the papers again. Darley had actually been in the papers that year already, when Mr Gubbins, the vicar’s warden, had drawn a consolation prize in the Grand National sweep. The sporting half of Darley had been delighted, but envious; the pious half had been quite unable to understand why the vicar had not immediately dismissed Mr Gubbins from his privilege of handing round the plate and sitting on the Church Council, and thought that Mr Gubbins’s action in devoting a tithe of his winnings to the Restoration Fund merely piled hypocrisy on the head of debauchery.’

-- Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (1932), Chapter XII. “The Evidence of the Bride’s Son.”

The Irish Hospital Sweepstakes, a combination of wager and lottery, began in 1930 with the ostensible purpose of supporting Irish hospitals (though the promoters of the sweeps made out very well themselves). The cost of a ticket was £1, and the payout if you backed the winning horse was substantial; at the inaugural sweeps, first prize was over £200,000. If you failed to back a win, place, or show, there was a second chance - a lottery in which (in 1931) 10 lucky winners received £4216, and another 1900 received a consolation prize of £100 (about US $7500 today). The video above shows the pageantry of that lottery in its 1932 edition.

Lotteries and similar games of chance had been outlawed in Britain since 1823, but that did little to quash British participation in the sweeps. The Irish Free State legalized lotteries in 1930 specifically in order to allow the sweeps to take place.

Below: recto and verso of a ticket from the 1934 Grand National sweepstakes.

Sources: video, images, Ir.Eam.Soc.Hist.XXIX(2002), 40-55, The Times, November 30, 1931.

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(luego de una larga espera)

Técnica; uwu les presento mi última actualización de su amigo al que llamaban Darley

Spike; remodelación como cuáles ,'=^??

Técnica; uwu sal amigo

Darreyl: |=(

Robot Waiter; =o vaya su look y todo es tan nuevo que gran cambio

Técnica; les presento a Darreyl el pirata guerrero nwn Darreyl usa sus espadas eh pistolas para atacar a sus enemigos a larga distancia mientras más cerca este más daño hará a sus oponentes y su ave Lorry puede parecer inofensiva pero no te confíes ^^

Robot Waiter; <=J y al menos nos recuerda

Técnica; oh bueno eso sí pero como cambie su protocolo pues se expresa de distintas formas

Spike: chale se ve más rudo y frío me agrada =^

Ustedes ya saben de quién me inspire para el remodeló de Darley que ahora se llama Darreyl xd

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Medaglia d’ Oro

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Slate Hill Fire District Wawayanda Fire Company Tanker 732 by Triborough Via Flickr: 1988 Mack R688/S&S/Darley

[theanxiousracehorse]

Giraffe boi has the biggest withers of any horse I've ever met

[rideonruffian]

Frosted - Snow Top Mountain, by Najran

The first foal for 2016 Met Mile winner Frosted has arrived! Born the morning of January 15, the filly out of a multiple graded stakes winner is a half-sister to Greyvitos! The filly will eventually gray out just like her parents and brother!

(Photo from Darley)