56 THE MERRY GEE-GEE 



of Fyne, who won. He rode five steeple- 

 chases last spring, and this summer he 

 has ridden in ninety-three jumping com- 

 petitions all over England, winning nine- 

 teen firsts, and being forty-seven times 

 in the first three. I hope to see him 

 win a grand National some day. He 

 ought to be flat-race riding now, but I 

 have no horses running at the present 

 time, and other trainers have their own 

 boys bringing out, and would not put up 

 an outside boy (who has not had the 

 opportunity to bring himself to the front) 

 for worlds. 



A good apprentice is often the "best 

 horse in the stable " to a trainer, but 

 he must be bound to them ; and if you 

 send a young boy out, and he looks 

 like getting beefy, they will never bother 

 about him. He sinks into oblivion ; learns 

 such riding as he can pick up from 



