PREFACE 



About racing, as about a variety of other things, 

 opinions differ, and I should be more fortunate than 

 can be hoped or expected if my readers were to 

 agree with all the views expressed in this book. 

 I can only say that when I have advanced an 

 argument I have always endeavoured to furnish 

 reasons for my beliefs. The reasons may be bad ones : 

 that is for the reader to judge. 



Alfred E. T. Watson. 



Palace Gate House, Kensington, 

 J line ^ 1898. 



