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they should, I think, have an interest of their own 

 for all who take a practical interest in the turf; 

 whilst they will serve to supplement what has 

 already appeared on this subject in ' The Racehorse 

 in Training/ to which the present is intended, in a 

 sense, as a companion volume. The comparison 

 which I have ventured to draw between the old and 

 the new schools of trainers and jockeys will, I appre- 

 hend, be commended or condemned according to the 

 view taken of it ; but its intention will not be readily 

 mistaken by any reader. 



I have found it no easy task to delineate the 

 various idiosyncrasies of many dissimilar characters, 

 as exhibited at different times and places. If there- 

 fore I have only outlined them, I trust it may prove 

 sufficient for the purpose intended. But I may say 

 that all I have written has been written, to the best 

 of my knowledge and ability, in the true interests 

 of racing; and whilst I have endeavoured neither 

 unjustly to censure nor unseemly to praise one 

 character or the other, I have been careful that every 

 important fact put forward shall be capable of ample 

 corroboration, if needed. We are told that ' The 

 task of an author is either to teach truth that is 

 not known, or to recommend known truths by his 

 manner of adorning them.' And we also know that 



1 Of old, those met reward that could excel, 

 And such were praised that but endeavoured well.' 



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