AMONG HORSES IN RUSSIA 



INTRODUCTION 



Old Days abroad Leicestershire Farmers Polish Jews Hunting People 

 Captain Williams Lord Lonsdale Colonel Forester No Bread Riding to 

 Hounds Mr. Sam Hames Mr. Harry Goodall Veterinary Surgeons 

 Writing Books Mr. Frank Ward. 



IN Indian Racing Reminiscences I told the story of the 

 sport I had for fourteen years in India, racing, chasing, 

 and training, while I was in The Gunners, Bengal Staff 

 Corps, and finally in The Buffs. Regimental life, even with 

 the best of comrades, and India with unlimited leave to go 

 to race meetings, shooting excursions and the Hills, at last 

 produced on me the effect which the eternal partridge had on 

 Louis Quatorze's clerical friend. Having commenced to 

 write books about horses, and having put in a couple of 

 years' study at the New Veterinary College when on leave 

 from India, 1 became fired with the ambition of taking out 

 my diploma and qualifying in time as an authority on the 

 subject which the generality of us Irishmen like best, so I 

 left the army in 1879. I stayed five years in England, 

 brought out more books, saw a ood deal of racing at 



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Newmarket, and then, anxious to gain a wider experience 

 of horses and to pay " ex's," I travelled through India, 

 Ceylon, China, South Africa, Egypt and elsewhere, holding 

 classes for instruction in horse-breaking and giving horse- 



