South Hatch 



whole hog or none, even if one is unconnected 

 with the pork industry, when one's liver is in 

 need of variety ? We used to feel very fit indeed 

 after those strenuous jumping tournaments at 

 Walton. Yet, to make a clean breast of it, I 

 never had a fall there which shattered me in- 

 describably or beyond recognition by my friends. 

 I was only knocked insensible a few times, and 

 broke a rib or two. One rib more or less dis- 

 agreeably fractured does not matter in that 

 relation. It is all in the day's work, and — wages 

 or no wages — we must be thankful when the 

 day's work is done. 



The South Hatch stables are situated close to 

 Epsom Downs, and the horses are walked direct 

 from their boxes into a large paddock at the back 

 of the house, and then on to the Downs, thus 

 having no road work. The gallops are kept in 

 excellent order and condition all the year round. 

 Even in summer Six Mile Hill affords good 

 " going " ; and, as I need scarcely add, many 

 winners are trained there every season. I am 

 sure that my father, brother, and myself have had 

 our fair share of winners, both over a country and 

 on the flat, whilst training at Epsom. As a local 

 oracle remarked with regard to this point : " All 

 we want is the ' goods,' my boy, the right sort of 



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