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is already lost and forgotten, and another genera- 

 tion of dalesfolk would have remembered little or 

 nothing of the contents of this volume, which 

 will be invaluable to those who take an interest 

 in Yorkshire sport or Yorkshire sporting history ; 

 a literature peculiar to itself, and withal forming 

 no small part in the social history of every 

 locality, and more especially that with which this 

 book deals. Here farmers, riders, famous trainers, 

 renowned jockeys, as well as many hares and 

 foxes which are immortalized in these pages, as 

 well as in the lore and legend of the Dale, had 

 their birth. Here, too, many racehorses, whose 

 strain is still to be found in the racing stables 

 and studs of to-day, had their first gallops. But 

 this is another story. Wensleydale spells sport 

 as sport suggests Wensleydale— the twain are 

 synonymous, and if there were any doubt about 

 the matter, Captain Chapman appears to have 

 dispelled it. 



