FAMOUS 



RACING MEN 



WITH ANECDOTES AND PORTRAITS. 



By 'THORMANBY.' 



In life's rough tide I sank not down, 

 But swam till Fortune threw a rope, 

 Buoyant on bladders filled with hope." — Green. ( T/te Spleen. J 



" Nee metuis dubio Fortunte stantis in orbe 

 Numen, et exosa- verba superba decc ? " 

 " Fearest thou not the divine power of Fortune, as she stands on her unsteady 

 ■wheel, that gfoddess who abhors all vaunting words ? "--OviD. 



LONDON: 

 JAMES HOGG, 22, EXETER STREET, STRAND, W.C. 



1882. 



