My Racing Adventures 



noise did not herald much of an explosion, and 

 he was a very careful man with his horses. They 

 absorbed his attention in a general way — the way 

 he liked. 



The private hurdle and steeplechase course 

 belonging to South Hatch is at Walton Heath, 

 about 3 miles from the stables ; and all the fences 

 there are designed, of course, according to the 

 " regulation " pattern. They are pretty strongly 

 built up in harmony with the finest classical taste. 

 They " want doing," in festive phrase, and if they 

 are half done a complete " purler " is likely to be 

 the result. This is, in my opinion, one of the 

 best " schooling " grounds in England for young 

 'chasers, and the jumping of twenty horses or 

 more there of a morning provides a brisk sport- 

 ing spectacle. To ride half of that number — 

 first off one, then on to another, with a few more 

 in waiting — involves a sufficient expenditure of 

 energy for a nice morning's work. There may 

 be a fall or two to shake up the preposterously 

 enterprising jockey. 



People who are advised by their physician to 

 take horse exercise for the benefit of their stag- 

 nant liver might do worse than to emulate, even 

 in a partial degree, the vigorous performances 

 thus indicated. What is better than to go the 



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