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CHAPTER XXIII 



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STRANGE CHARACTERS . 264 



Colonel North How did he do it? Chaotic Betting His Box 

 at Epsom The Tower Hamlets Volunteers The Colonel as a 

 <p e( j_-< How's that for The Sportsman ? "Private Racing at 

 Newmarket Sundays at Avery Hill John Roberts and the 

 Billiard-Table Colonel North as a Candidate at Leeds His Amaz- 

 ing Sale of Horses and Greyhounds at Avery Hill Hogarthian Scene 

 Parson Parkes Preaches to Mrs Asquith Takes to Training 

 Making Horseshoes during the War A Great Platform Speaker 

 "Pray silence for the Rev. A. W. Parkes !" Class or No Class 

 Piraeus and Orange William A Parson to the last 



CHAPTER XXIV 

 GREAT HANDICAP HORSES ..... 275 



Handicapping by Weight unsatisfactory Great Weight-Carriers not 

 necessarily great Instance Bendigo On the contrary, Minting 

 The White Knight and Willonyx below Classic Form Air Raid 

 Isonomy Minting and St Simon at 10 st. 7 Ib. each Would the 

 better Horse have won? Count Mokronoski and Carlton Sheen 

 and Sterling Strange Theory about Young Gouty Time Test, 

 its Uses and Abuses The Puzzle of it English Courses inaccurately 

 measured Instance of the Goodwood Cup Course 



CHAPTER XXV 

 LATTER-DAY OWNERS ...... 284 



James Lowther at Battersea The Three Rothschilds" Mr 

 Leopold" and his Benefactions The Vyners Mr Houldsworth 

 Prince Soltykoff The Duke of Westminster Lord Falmouth 

 Mr Arthur James 



CHAPTER XXVI 

 OTHER TIMES, OTHER MANNERS .... 294 



Great Changes in Football Association unknown in the Sixties 

 Rugby as it then was Cricket Perennial Dalton on Bridge First 

 Notice at the Rutland Arms, Newmarket My Surprise Dalton still 

 the Authority My Own Incapacity Horrible Names of Rugby and 

 Association Football Croquet Past and Present Bowls Golf 

 The Filey Course Convoys Marbles 



