DEDICATION. 



To my dearest and best friend, Mr. J. J. McLeod, I dedi- 

 cate these reminiscences, for no one has done more to support 

 Sonepore, than the brave Highland gentleman and keen 

 sportsman, who, since 1862, has scarcely missed a meeting, and 

 who has run and ridden hundreds of horses on its course, 

 during his long and honored racing career. One, too, whom the 

 officials have ever held in respect and estimation, not only 

 as a model landlord, planter, and volunteer, but one who has 

 been most useful to them as an adviser, and who was once told, 

 and told truthfully, by a Civilian, that he was a bright example 

 to both white and black. " Ave Jimmy Chumparun Imperator." 



H. E. ABBOTT. 



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