PREFACE 



Two years ago at Ascot his lordship, who was one 

 of Mr. Hodgman's best friends, seized the occasion 

 to test his memory by "leading questions." He 

 received such an avalanche of anecdote that he 

 turned to Mr. Hodgman and said, " Hodgman, you 

 ought to publish your Reminiscences." " If I did, 

 my lord," was the answer, " I should need the help 

 of one or two like you to put them together." 

 " And that should be no trouble. You really ought 

 to publish." Nor is it too much to say that had Lord 

 Hussell been spared he would have stood sponsor for 

 the volume. 



Helen's babies wanted to see the works go round, 

 and the Turf world may be similarly curious as to 

 how the ensuing pages were compiled. Briefly, 

 then, I have spent some three months with Mr. 

 Hodgman, taken note of his reminiscences, and 

 welded them into some degree of cohesion. 



I wish to add that the chapter on the Jockeys 

 was penned some time ago. This I mention because 

 I notice in the " Sheet Calendar" of March 8, 1901, 

 licences were recorded as taken out for over a 

 hundred apprentices. Apparently the policy of 

 "drifting" has received a check. It remains to be 

 seen whether the lost ground can be recovered. 



CHAS. R. WARREN. 



