RACING SERVANTS: OLD STYLE AND NEW. loi 



vogue have been, even in long-distance preparations, in great 

 measure superseded by half-speed canters, short, sharp spins, 

 and walking and trotting exercise of many hours' duration ; while 

 the striding gallops ' over the course ' are, except in the case of 

 very gross animals, more often performed in a single sheet than 

 under the heavy sweating clothes of a bygone system. 



The new and the old were seen strangely blended when 

 Foxhall won the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire. Unlimited 

 was the praise bestowed by press and public on William Day 

 for the care and skill which had wrought such marvels, and 

 for a time the honours of the double event seemed to rest 

 solely with him; but after a while conviction seized upon men's 

 minds that the muscle and condition laid on at Bedford Lodge 

 had played no unimportant part in enabling the horse to stand 

 the ordeal of ' our Bill's ' winding up, and that if William of 

 Woodyeates was for the nonce first-class xxidSi—proxiine accessit 

 should be written against the name of Richard Sherrard. 



The residence of our successful trainer is as complete, even 

 as luxurious, in its equipment as are his stables; his hospi- 

 tality is fully equal to the demands made on it by the mutual 

 entertainment society of Newmarket, and his tastes, in whatever 

 direction they may tend, are as freely indulged. 



The portraits of winners which adorn his walls are by the 

 fashionable horse-painter of the day; and the riders, usually 

 depicted in majestic soHtude on the middle of the Heath, as 

 having distanced all competitors, are, in the matter of seat and 

 bearing, drawn to the life. 



His library boasts a well-assorted collection of the book- 

 binder's art. The musical acquirements of wife or daughters 

 necessitate the possession of at least a 'semi-grand,' and his 

 drawing-room tables are loaded with clocks, cups, and other 

 articles of vertit., whose inscriptions record the triumphs of the 

 trainer, and recognition thereof by his employers. 



In a word — the whole business is carried on in a style fully 

 •commensurate with that advanced state of civilisation of which 

 we are all so proud. As somebody has to pay the piper — 



