hunt-races

Updated: May 14, 2025

Far back in the Dark Ages, when his body was more on a par with his legs, it was rumoured that Mat had himself won hunt-races. "Then my body went on, or rayther spread out," he would tell his intimates, "while me legs stayed where they was. So Mat become a trainer 'stead of a jockey." And Mat's legs were not the only part of him that had stayed as they were in those remote days.

Alfred Ollivant - Boy Woodburn: A Story of the Sussex Downs