PREFACE. 



But few words are re(|iiire(l l)y way of ]ireface to a 

 book of this kind. A collection of facts connected with 

 Horse, Hound, and Herd, it does not pretend to be a con- 

 tinuous history, or to give an exhaustive account of either. 

 The notes from which it is chiefly composed have been 

 collected at long intervals, and the book itself has been 

 written under somewhat similar circumstances. Portions 

 of it have appeared in some of the leading Agricultural, 

 Sporting, and Live Stock Journals ; but these portions 

 have beer thoroughly revised ; in some instances, entirely 

 re-written. I have used every care to ensure the literal 

 accuracy of the facts of which I have treated, and in every 

 case where racing is the topic, I have compared my notes 

 with the Official Calendar and the General Stud Book, 



To those gentlemen from whom I have received so 

 much valuable information, and who have spared them- 

 selves no trouble to insure the accuracy of that informa- 

 tion, T beg to tender my best thanks. I shall ever look 

 back on the days spent in their compan}' as amongst tlie 



