Photo, by M. H. Hayes. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Cramming— Militia Subalterns— A Book on Tactics— Mr John Hubert Moore 

 —Horse Breaking— Writing New Editions— Mr John Sturgess— A Book 

 on the Shape and Make of Horses— Newmarket— Mr John Hammond— 

 —St Gatien— Mr John Corlett— The Sporting Times— ' Gubbins'— 

 ' Shifter '—The Earnings of Jockeys and Trainers— Irish Horses in 

 England— Touting— Mr Townsend, the Horse Painter— Mr Oswald 

 Brown— Mr Allan Sealy — Mr Sam Waller— Mr Briton Riviere— Mr 

 Haywood Hardy — Mr John Charlton. 



AFTER having brought out my book on Riding, and 

 looked on at a season's racing in England, I began 

 to feel that I would like a new sensation. Colonel Kinchant, 

 who was an old racing friend and who afterwards commanded 

 the nth Hussars, on hearing my plaint (for we used to go 

 about a great deal together), suggested that I should try my 

 hand at army cramming ! ' You are an old Gunner,' said he ; 

 ' and you are smart at mathematics, drawing and all that sort 

 of things,' he was kind enough to add ; ' so all you have got 



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