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CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. THE ARAB AND HIS STEED . , 1 



II. FEATS OF ENDURANCE . . . . .13 



III. ENGLISH versus ARAB THOROUGHBREDS . . 20 



IV. A BATCH OF CURIOUS MATCHES . . .29 

 V. FAMOUS JOCKEYS . . . .42 



VI. MILITARY STEEPLECHASING . . , .56 



VII. SOME FOREIGN JOCKEYS . . . .63 



VIII. HORSE -RACING SOME OLD MATCHES AND SOME 



NEW DODGES ...... 68 



IX. THE HUMOURS OF THE RACECOURSE . . 84 



X. THE HUNTING-FIELD ITS HEROES AND THEIR EX- 

 PLOITS ....... 120 



XI. ADVENTURES WITH THE HOUNDS . . . 152 



XII. COMICALITIES OF THE HUNTING-FIELD , . 162 



XIII. COLONIAL AND AMERICAN HORSEMEN . .174 



XIV. ANECDOTES OF HORSE-TAMING AND BREAKING . 185 



