CHAPTER VI 



THE NOBLE ART OF BACKING WINNERS ON 

 THE TURF 



Only to think this Is the last chapter ! 

 Oh, happy thought ! Never, when I 

 started, did I ever think I should struggle 

 through, but somehow, whilst writing of 

 riding and hunting matters, I seemed to 

 glide along glibly enough. Beyond doubt, 

 should this book ever see the inside of a 

 cover, It will be handed down to posterity 

 as the greatest jumble ever written. I am 

 fully aware things are dotted down In one 

 chapter which belong to another, and so 

 on, but any attempt at revision or classi- 

 fication is ten times more Irksome, I 



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