146 " MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE ! " 



notable public services, at Tel-el-Kebir, in the Soudan; 

 and elsewhere. 



William Amias Bailward was also a good friend of mine 

 at Rugby, and, later, at Balliol. He, since the early 

 eighties, has done a vast amount of good public work in 

 London. 



Another contemporary of mine, though only for the 

 last year or so at school, was John Simons Harrison, whom 

 I did not get to know well at that time, as he was younger 

 and in another house, but we have been intimate friends 

 now for many years, and no one knows better than I do 

 how much he has done for the good of our bloodstock 

 breeding and the horse industry in general. Such services 

 are of vast importance, though seldom recognised in 

 England at their true value to the nation. In other 

 countries of the world the man who is a real expert 

 in horse breeding and supply comes in for State recogni- 

 tion, but in England rarely, if ever. Horses are supposed, 

 by the "unco guid," to be instruments of gambling, 

 spreading a vicious miasma over all who have anything 

 to do with them. Hence it is that on the outbreak of 

 war we are always woefully short of horses. 



