THE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Reproduced from paintings by 



CAPTAIN G. D. GILES 



How we Beat the Favourite . . . frontispiece 

 Iseult. 



Unshriven ...... page 8 



Empty saddle on his back, broken bridle hanging slack, 

 The steed returned full gallop to the stall. 



By Blood and Field 24 



And one who rode on a dark brown steed, 



Clean jointed, sinewy, spare, 

 With the lean game head of the Blacklock breed. 

 And the resolute eye that loved the lead, 



And the quarters massive and square — 

 A tower of strength, with a promise of speed 



{There was Celtic blood in the pair). 



Finis Exoptatus ...... 40 



Once at Ephesus. 



In Utrumque Paratus . . . . . 56 



In a rattling gallop with hound and horse. 



Banker's Dream . . . . . .136 



"Banker wins," "Banker's beat," "Cadger wins," 

 "A dead heat." 



The Sick Stockrider . . . . . .168 



To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard, 

 With a running fire of stockwhips and a fiery run 



of hoofs ; 

 Oh ! the hardest day was never then too hard ! 



From the Wreck 184 



And faster and faster across the wide heath 



We rode till we raced. Then I gave her her head. 



And she — stretching out with the bit in her teeth — 



She caught him, outpaced him, and passed him, and led. 

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