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expenses to meetings. This will be borne out by 

 owners and by Messrs Weatherby and others. 



While when I first came to England there was no- 

 body to speak to me, after I had made a few successes 

 there was no end to the people who came up and claimed 

 me. Often it was impossible to remember having met 

 them before, let alone having talked to them ! But I 

 would go through the handshake and the ordinary 

 greeting : " Glad to see you." Some of them would 

 say, " Don't you remember me ? I was," etc., etc. 

 Sometimes they were just as funny as the man who 

 rushed up to Jim Corbett once saying, " How are 

 you, Mr Corbett, don't you know me ? Surely you 

 remember when you left Jackson, Mississippi, all the 

 inhabitants came out to see the champion pass through. 

 Well, I was the little fellow with the brown Derby hat 

 standing in the crowd." 



I recall one man, a year or two after, who came up 

 to speak to me at Doncaster. He started telling me 

 that he had to thank me for giving him a winner at 

 Goodwood. He had had a tenner on and wanted to 

 thank me, for he had pouched a good win. Having 

 nothing to do at the moment I humoured him but I 

 told him that I had never met him at Goodwood to 

 begin with. He insisted that I had, and offered to 

 bet me fifty pounds that he was right. 



" Show me the fifty," I said, kidding him. 



" Well I haven't got it on me " he began. 



" You don't look as if you had," said I, and drew 

 him on by adding, " Would you like to bet me ten 

 dollars ? Show me that amount. Eh ! What ? I 

 don't think you've got even that." The truth was 

 that he had tried to get up a conversation for his own 

 ends, perhaps in order to use my name, but I knew 

 by the way he had started that I had never spoken 



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