UPON TRAINERS. 



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Derby, and had a leg which prevented his being trained, and 

 broke him down soon afterwards in the Doncaster Cup. 

 Oulston was brought out to run at York as thin as a hurdle, or, 

 in other words, a worse animal by 2 st. than when, with no 

 preparation, he had galloped away with the Queen's Vase at 

 Ascot. Precisely the same circumstance happened in 1884 

 with Stockholm. The mare won the Goodwood Stakes with- 

 out difficulty when she had done little work ; but when elabo- 

 rately prepared for the Cesarewitch, in which she was heavily 



Trained light and running big. 



backed by her party, she ran a 2i-lb. worse animal than at 

 Goodwood. 



The truth is that nature, like whist, never forgives a mistake. 

 There are horses which require to be trained, as the phrase 

 runs, round a pocket-handkerchief; there are others which 

 can hardly have too much galloping. The error, as it seems 

 to us, of the system adopted by the Chifneys and the Days, is 

 that they treated all their horses alike, and subjected them to 

 a Spartan discipline which some, and, as we think, the majority, 

 could not endure. William Day tells us, in his ' Racehorse in 



