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John Corlett was a very old friend of mine, and I 

 wrote for The Sporting Times long before it had ever 

 occurred to me to expect remuneration for writing. He 

 never had much luck as an owner of race-horses indeed 

 his "hair-trunks" became a byword among his staff 

 but he once bought a nice yearling filly for ^100 from 

 me, on the occasion of a visit to Cobham. This was 

 Queengold, by Sorcerer (son of Ormonde) out of Lady 

 Sterling (dam of Cooee, etc.). She was really useful and 

 won him a race or two, but he aspired too high. She 

 became a rare good brood mare afterwards, practically 

 all her stock being winners. Perhaps the best of them 

 was Gera. 



I must not let myself stray into more reminiscences of 

 John Corlett. He was a great character and, one might 

 almost add, a great man. That I liked him well goes 

 without the saying. 



It was not my fortune to know "Charlie" Greenwood 

 very well, but that did not prevent me from appreciat- 

 ing the value of his work, for his knowledge of all 

 the business side of racing was unequalled, and his 

 " Hotspur " articles in The Daily Telegraph were always 

 in eager demand in any and every race week. He had 

 the capacity to write anywhere, and I have often seen 

 him standing up in a paddock and scribbling away at a 

 great pace, with apparent ease. Now I should say the 

 late Jim Smith ("Vigilant" for many years) was Green- 

 wood's equal in knowledge of the inner workings of the 

 game, but he had not the same facility in committing 

 his knowledge to paper. Then, too, Greenwood was 

 quite unrivalled as a " reader " of races, and practically 

 all the reports used to be taken from him. 



If he erred at all in his journalistic proclivities, it was 



