Racing Reminiscences and Experiences of the Turf
LIBRARY UNIVERSITY^ PENNSYLVANIA FAIRMAN ROGERS COLLECTION ON HORSEMANSHIP ^ / ^/ Jp^ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/racingreminisc01chet RACING EEMINISCENCES VOL. I. FHINTET) BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQIJARE LONDON RACING REMINISCENCES AND EXPEEIENCES OF THE TUEF BY SIE GEOEGE CHETWYND, - BAET. IN TWO VOLUMES—VOL. I. LONDON LONGMANS, GEEEN, AND CO. AND NEW YOEK : 15 EAST IG"- STREET 1891 Ail rights reserved NEW BOLTON (m«. CENTER cm ^•1 DEDICATED SPOETING PUBLIC — PEEFACE Tfie reader has doubtless observed, as I have, how much interest is often aroused by a glance at an old ' Eacing Calendar ' which revives memories of bygone celebrities and of the events which made them famous. We seem to hear again the thunder of their hoofs as they dash past the Kowley Mile Stand, see the flash of the bright jackets, and listen to the roar of the crowd that follows the hoisting of the number which proclaims that the good thing has come off—or, as more frequently happens, has just been beaten on the post. But in a ' Calendar ' there is necessarily an absence of detail ; it is in its nature a dry record of fact ; and I have ventured to think, therefore, that a somewhat fuller account of the most interesting events of which I have been a spectator—in which, not seldom, I have been an actor—would perhaps possess interest for my readers. During my racing career I have also gathered and on many occasions paid dearly for—experience of various kinds ; and this, it has struck me, is likely to be of service to those who have a taste for the ' great game.' Many men whose names live, and will live, in Turf history have been my friends, and sketches .
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