194 MR. SWINDELL 



he never lost, and the reputation for shrewdness and 

 reticence which followed him to his grave. He then, after 

 the manner of his predecessors and contemporaries, took 

 to keeping horses of his own, having a few in different 

 stables, so that he might obtain information in what 

 he would call a straight way and at the proper time, 

 which was just before the race itself. He owned several 

 good horses. Amongst others, he had Sawcutter, which 

 he sold to Mr. Naylor, of Hooton, for whom he won 

 the City and Suburban ; Wallace and Minotaur, and the 

 Truth gelding, which trained, I think, by Mr. Matthew 

 Dawson as a four-year-old, with 5 st. 12 Ib. on him, 

 was beaten a head for the Cesare witch ; Tomahawk, 

 winner of the Lincoln Handicap ; Cecil, trained by his 

 Epsom trainer, besides many more trained by William 

 Treen, myself, and others. Wallace and Weatherbound 

 were his two best. In late years he had several horses 

 trained in stables that I never heard of until he told me. 

 Somersault, a good horse, broke down with me, and I 

 wished him to take him out of training. Mr. Swindell 

 requested me to send him to a place named in Lis letter. 

 Two years afterwards, not having run in the meantime, 

 I was surprised, when at Shrewsbury, to find the horse 

 in training, fat as a pig, without a leg to stand on, and 

 in such a condition, as might be expected, easily beaten 

 in the only race he ran in. 



Weatherbound' s trial and performance in the Cam- 

 bridgeshire deserve special mention. After Dulcibella 

 had won the Cesarewitch, on which Mr. Swindell, like 

 the rest of us, had won a good stake, having done the 

 commission, he said to me : 



1 1 wish you would train a mare of mine. I have two 

 in one stable at Newmarket, and I am displeased with 

 , who is training them ; but, not wishing to injure 



