This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... to see horses jump was a sight for the gods! On every race he religiously punted half-acrown, never more or less; and in all the years I knew him, I never remember his backing a winner but once. Poor Tom Brett had a heart of gold, but it was certainly hidden beneath a strange, uncouth exterior. Why ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... to see horses jump was a sight for the gods! On every race he religiously punted half-acrown, never more or less; and in all the years I knew him, I never remember his backing a winner but once. Poor Tom Brett had a heart of gold, but it was certainly hidden beneath a strange, uncouth exterior. Why lawyers should be generally considered incapable of sympathy with sport, is passing strange; and how false the notion is, is easily shown by mentioning such names in connection with hunting and racing as those of the Lord Chief-Justice (Lord Russell); the late Mr. Granville Somerset, Q.C., one of the best men who ever crossed Exmoor; Sir Henry Hawkins; Lord Justice Lopes; Mr. Justice Grantham; Sir Frank Lockwood, Q.C., M.P., the late Solicitor-General; Mr. Butcher, M.P.; and Mr. Darling, Q.G, M.P.--all of whom, by the way, took great interest in the first Bench and Bar Point to Point race, run April 10, 1895. That so grave and learned a profession could do anything of such a decidedly "frisky" nature as indulge in a steeplechase, took all the old-fashioned lawyers by surprise. Shades of Erskine, Mansfield, and Brougham! suppose any one had been rash enough to propose such a thing in their day! Excommunication would surely have been deemed too good for him. But "autre temps, autre moeurs," and an assemblage which included England's then Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor, and Sir R. Webster, the present Attorney-General, were at Combe to give the event a good "send off," and witness the success of Mr. Gee on Defiance in the Light Weight, and of the Hon. Alfred Lyttleton's Corunna (a Retreat horse), ably handled by Mr. H. Godsal, in the Heavy Weight contest. An unfortunate accident, at a wretched little fence with an awkward landing on a...
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