PREFACE. 



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always been peculiarly favourable to breeders soon produced a racer that could beat 

 every competitor of more humble and domestic origin ; and the beautiful Arab was 

 then severely left alone in his native deserts as soon as he had done what was 

 requested of him and had won an imperishable name among the great ancestors in 

 the English Stud Hook. Our forefathers in fact wanted a good, and novel, and 



His Majesty the King's " Laodamia." 

 SamJriHg/iam, 1901. 



exciting means of gambling. They got it. The modern two-year-old, a racing 

 machine if ever there was one, is one result. 



But I am far from being desirous of even hinting at that never-ending 

 controversy between old and new, which must remain one-sided and inconclusive 

 till we all meet again where it is sometimes considered that the solution of every 

 problem will be a final form of happiness. The photograph and the chronometer 

 were employed too late for us to make any profitable comparisons, cither as to build 



