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Holyoake, Mr. John Welby, Mr. Tailby, Captain 

 (Doggy) Smith, Sir Frederick Johnstone, Lord Lons- 

 dale, and a good many more down to date? It has 

 been said that to belong to the first flight in 

 Leicestershire requires a tremendously long purse, 

 as the horses are made for the business at any cost. 

 In this sense, therefore, the division to be spoken of 

 as the less favoured have been heard to declare that 

 any fellow can go well when mounted on a patent 

 safety that cannot make a mistake, and gallops as 

 fast as a racehorse. There have been reverse sides 

 of the picture in this view though, as good men else- 

 where have not always done well in Leicestershire, 

 even when very well mounted ; and, again, some of 

 the greatest performers have often commenced on 

 very indifferent cattle. 



I feel even now that I have omitted many names 

 which I ought to have mentioned, but I must ask my 

 readers to remember that this is not a dictionary of 

 sporting biography. 



