CHAPTER XI. 



TIME. 



One of the most important stndies connected with 

 racing is that commonly called the "time test," 

 but there are few, I am afraid, who know any- 

 thing about it. Some are to be found, it is true, 

 who have tried it, but their knowledge, so far as 

 I have seen, is only superficial, and they are gen- 

 erally hopelessly at sea on the subject. It is, in 

 all its aspects, a dithcult study, and I do not pre- 

 tend to have mastered it wholly in all its some- 

 what complex details. I can say this, however, 

 that I have given myself the chance of doing so, 

 for I have studied it for many years, and possess 

 the records of races I have timed on almost every 

 course in England, to number in the aggregate 

 something approaching 4,000. 



In my time I liave seen a good deal of racing and 

 racing methods, not the least interesting of which 



