" ROBIN GOODFELLOW " 



down on paper. That may be liis caution, but at the 

 same time he has spoken more strongly about various 

 incidents which have occurred on the turf than many 

 of his contemporaries. A few years back very hot 

 reference was made by a speaker at the Gimcrack 

 Dinner to what had appeared in the Mail, and 

 " Robin's " friends chaffed him that he would not be 

 given the access as before to Newmarket Heath. Of 

 course that was all chaff, but the plain speaking was 

 not ignored by thoughtful people who were in a 

 position to take his remarks as very serious. 



There have been so many of them. Many have met 

 poor Trevelyan, formerly "Kettledrum" of the S'porting 

 Chronicle. He went to America, and became a stipen- 

 diary steward, after occupying a position given to him 

 by the late Mr \V. C. Whitney on the New York 

 Morning Telegraph, for which he was paid the useful 

 salary of fifty j^ounds a week. He was very popular 

 in racing circles over there right until he died. He was 

 succeeded on the Chronicle by William Standing, who 

 has associated with him in the work Neville, who writes 

 the " Travelling Correspondent's " notes, and various 

 paragraphs. He is a very hard-working journalist; 

 very positive ; but, for that, who isn't positive about 

 racing ? It is one of the redeeming features of being 

 on the turf that we are supposed to have an opinion 

 of our own. 



I have mentioned Tommy Edge in a previous chapter. 

 Alec Webster was for a long time a popular member 

 of the Sporting Life staff, and at the time of writing 

 runs with success a paper known as the Racing 

 Outlook. The late Charles Warren was a well-known 

 character. He had a caustic pen, and usually took a 

 disgruntled view of racing situations. Like Mr Neville, 

 who has just been mentioned, he was for some years 



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