Tattersalln.adj.

1795 Sporting Mag. 6 5/1 The gentlemen of the turf assembled every sale day..at Tattersalls.

1825 Monthly Mag. Mar. 129/2 The sale days, at Tattersall's, formerly on Monday and Thursday.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iv. 12/1 He burst forth like the neighing of all Tattersall's.

1846 ‘Sylvanus’ Pedestrian & Other Reminisc. xxv. 241 They've three or four working the oracle at Tatt's.

1880 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 4 Dec. 282/1 There has lately been opened at Christchurch, New Zealand a new ‘Tattersall's’, the want of which has long been felt.

1882 C. M. Yonge Unknown to Hist. II. v. 64 ‘Paul's Walk’ was the Bond Street, the Row, the Tattersall's, the Club of London.

1893 Cassell's Family Mag. Aug. 646/1 Ponies and donkeys are here too, for the costermongers. Indeed we might call it the costermonger's horse fair, the Tattersall's of the poorer classes.

1973 Country Life 15 Nov. 1547/3 Tattersall's..moved from Hyde Park Corner in 1865, to Knightsbridge Green... Tattersall's continued selling bloodstock and hunters..for some years after the ring of carriage horses' hooves had ceased.

1982 Daily Tel. 4 Mar. 18/3 The [Hunters' Improvement and National Horse Breeding] society..based..for the past 16 years at Tattersalls.

1836 T. Hood Let. 12 Jan. (1973) 211 Tattersall style of betting.

1843 Illustr. London News 17 June 418/1 The winners have been haunting Tattersall's..in search of a settlement.

1863 Observer 18 Jan. 2/4 The lobby of the hall is like the betting-room at Tattershall's in a low way.

1865 Once a Week 28 Oct. 523/1 At one time..rarely did the flood of speculation overflow the dykes of ‘The Corner’. Now we have an al fresco Tattersall's at nearly every open space in London.

1901 Cassell's Mag. Sept. 368/2 Tattersall's Ring at race-meetings and the committee of Tattersall's which rules the betting world, have now no connection with the firm..at Albert Gate.

1922 Notes & Queries 9 Sept. 206/2 Outside, all other enclosures on a racecourse save Tattersall's, which is ‘inside’.

1951 E. Rickman Come Racing with Me xvi. 151 The customary reference to the chief betting ‘ring’ on any racecourse as ‘Tattersalls’ or ‘Tatts’ is a relic of the rough-and-ready days when it was an enclosure used principally by bookmakers and backers who were members of Tattersalls' Subscription Room.

1962 D. Francis Dead Cert xiii. 144 The bookmakers on the rails—those..who stand along the railing between Tattersall's and the Club enclosures,..send out weekly accounts.

1973 ‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog xvii. 227 Sandro was in Tatt's... He could also go down the social and financial scale into the Silver Ring and the cheapest enclosures.

1983 ‘F. Parrish’ Bait on Hook v. 68 He had no real idea what class of man they were looking for—a denizen of the Members' [Enclosure] at £6, Tattersalls at £3.50, the Silver Ring for £1, the course for nothing.

1895 N. Gould On & off Turf in Austral. vi. 52 (heading) ‘Tattersalls’ and ‘Oxenhams’.

1895 N. Gould On & off Turf in Austral. vi. 61 Mr. George Adams..runs his consultations, or sweeps, under the name of ‘Tattersall’, and they are very popular all over the Colonies.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. xv. 264 To take a ticket in Tatt's is to buy a ticket in Tattersall's sweepstakes, Tasmania. Safe as Tatt's is synonymous with perfect safety.

1951 J. Frame Lagoon 57 His fingers search an envelope for the pink sheet that means Tatts results, ten thousand pounds first prize.

1957 J. Frame Owls do Cry xvii. 73 The Art Union? There was a theory that if you bought a ticket up north where the population was thickest you were sure to win a prize. The raffle? Tatts?

1965 Austral. Encycl. V. 371/2 The oldest continuing public lottery in Australia is ‘Tattersall's’,..established at Sydney in 1881... It took its name from Richard Tattersall's horse-auction mart in London.

1969 Australian 24 May 40/4 My man asked if he would abolish Tatts, seeing gambling was such a reprehensible thing.