AND TIMES OF JOHN OSBORNE 19 



afford the reader a glimpse of the home life itself of 

 a man whose name, since he rode his first winner as 

 far back as 1846 at Radcliffe races, has often resounded, 

 like a clarion, in the great strife of the racecourse. 

 However bald the limning, the opinion is ventured that 

 it may reveal a condition of affairs that his modern 

 confreres in the pigskin and in the training of horses 

 might copy, with the most beneficial results to them- 

 selves as individuals, and, collectively, to the great 

 national sport which has done so much to give vigour, 

 courage, and character to the Anglo-Saxon race. 



