XXVI 

 RACING IN CEYLON 



'' r DO not know," writes a contributor In 

 a recent number of Baily, '' If racing Is 

 carried on anywhere In Ceylon or not." 

 Now, as there may be a good many more 

 people In the same state of blissful Ignorance, 

 I think It may be of Interest if I note down 

 a few memories of the turf In Ceylon : not, 

 indeed, as it Is, but as it was in the eood 

 old days of the seventies, when I played 

 some little part thereon myself, premising 

 that (as I believe) things remain very much In 



