S6 ON AND OFF THE TURF. 



!Marv(.4 there, and also Paris before he went into 

 AUsop's quarters. Scores of good horses have passed 

 through '^ Jimmy's'^ hands, and he is one of the few- 

 trainers of the ohi school left. 



I am afraid space will not permit me to do more 

 than briefly allude to the bulk of the trainers, but if I 

 omit any they may rest assured it is not my fault, for 

 I have invariably been treated with the greatest 

 courtesy by them. 



Among other well-known men I have met is young 

 Harry Giltinan, a trainer who is rapidly coming to the 

 front, and who has won a lot of races with not over 

 brilliant horses : all the more credit to him. Chatham 

 was a good horse, and he won several races with him, 

 and Pharamond was another fair animal, although not a 

 beauty to look at. Cumberoona, in his stable, was 

 about the best hurdle horse in Sydney when I left. 



Mr. Mark Thompson trains for Mr. H. Oxenham, 

 and there are few abler men than he. Mark is not a 

 man to waste his words. That silence is golden he 

 firmly believes, and it takes a waggon and horses to 

 draw him out. To look into Mark^s face is to realize 

 the fact that there is occasionally an affinity between a 

 trainer and a parson. Mark Thompson would make 

 up as an excellent representative of the black cloth 

 brigade. Solanum, Utter, and Pilot Boy were threo 

 good horses he made the most out of. Utter h a mare, 

 but no matter. j\Iares are horses but horses are not 



