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morning, noon_, and night he can be found on the spot 

 looking after his charges. In a great measure I think 

 the secret of his success lies in his constant attention 

 to the horses under his charge. For a thing 

 to be well done there is nothing like doing it 

 yourself^ and Mr. Allsop evidently knows this, and 

 acts accordingly. 



The last time I paid him a visit, Paris, now in 

 England, was an inmate of his stables. He is owned 

 by Mrs. H. C. White, and was formerly trained by 

 James Monaghan, one of the good old stamp of 

 trainers, about whom more anon. Paris is for his 

 inches about one of the best gallopers I ever saw, and 

 he has won no end of big races. A couple of Caulfield 

 Cups falling to his share. 



Cremorne, Trenchant, Tiwona, Sundial, Atlas, 

 and others were in the comfortable boxes. One of 

 the best horses Allsop has had in my time was 

 Gibraltar, and it was most unfortunate when he 

 broke down in Melbourne. In the dining-room at 

 Mr. Allsop's are portraits in oils of most of the good 

 horses he has trained, and he is not a believer in the 

 superstition that after a horse's picture has been 

 painted he never wins a race. 



This chapter is merely a cursory one about trainers, 

 and I shall have more to say about them in anecdotal 

 form when dealing with the horses under their charge. 

 No excuse, however, need be offered for noticing them 



