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know him and Park House will feel that he and his 

 family ought to appear. The collateral contributions 

 to the individual history, which occur in narrative 

 and notes, were, it is submitted, necessary to make 

 the work fairly complete. It was said, when he had 

 been for that period before the public as a trainer, 

 that ' the history of John Porter for the past twenty- 

 five years was the history of the British Turf.' 

 That which was true in the statement eight years 

 ago has, I need scarcely observe, acquired dis- 

 tinctly additional force since. 



I cannot allow this opportunity to pass without 

 giving expression to the extreme pleasure which 

 my collaboration with John Porter has from first 

 to last afforded. It has been during mornings on 

 the Downs, and forenoons and afternoons in the 

 office (or library), that, with the agreeable interrup- 

 tions of ' stable,' we have put the book together. 

 To me its pages are pregnant with the most 

 charming associations. In short, ' Kingsclere' and 

 the household at Park House are, and will ever 

 remain, a delightful memory. 



BYRON WEBBER. 



May 1896. 



