120 TRYING SITUATIONS. 



a man pleading in forma pauperis, where his advocate 

 is not personally interested in a pecuniary way in the 

 success of the suit. It may be said that the counsel 

 and the trainer have their character at stake. We 

 allow they have ; but there is a wide difference 

 between doing enough to save character, and doing 

 all that could be done for any cause, be that cause 

 one in Chancery or one from the " Ditch-in." The 

 pleader or the trainer may feel a certain wish to show 

 their several abilities by being successful, and perhaps 

 to a certain degree do : but depend upon it they feel 

 a much greater wish for success where that success 

 brings in a rich harvest. In the case of the trainer, 

 however, we must remember that the chances may be 

 quite as many that he makes money by the horse 

 losing as by his winning ; and as he may command 

 the means of making him lose, but cannot those of 

 making him win, the losing is most likely to be to 

 him the winning side in very many cases : indeed, in 

 the long run, supposing the man to be a rogue, it 

 would be decidedly the sure game for him to play. 

 If we want a man of strict integrity, with a high 

 sense of honour and with a personal feeling of interest 

 for our success (in any situation in life), to act for 

 us, in no place is it wanted more than in the person 

 who is intrusted with the care of a racing establish- 

 ment : where we have not such a man, and keep 

 horses in training, we are always sitting on a barrel 

 of gunpowder. 



" Human nature is human nature still," and nothing 

 but highly-wrought feelings of honour or personal 

 attachment will induce a man to forego his own 

 interest for the sake of others. Are we sure to meet 

 the former, or have we any right to expect the latter 



