TWO AND THREE-YEAR-OLD RUNNING CONTRASTED. loi 



when trained and trying them so continually, that deserves 

 censure, and should be abandoned: Johnny Armstrong dind 

 Sultan, the only old horses that I remember ever giving a 

 high price for, did not suffer from the change of treatment if 

 they had been previously leniently trained. The former beat 

 most of the horses of his day at Newmarket ; whilst Snltan 

 won the Cambridgeshire as a three-year-old very easily, 

 carrying 7 stone 6 lbs. 



Facts are more telling than arguments. I may therefore 

 refer to the horses once under my care, and afterwards sold, 

 and trained by the most eminent trainers, which never won a 

 solitary race for their new owners. Of these the names and 

 the prices paid for them will be found at foot.^ 



It will be to the point to compare, here, the running of 

 Weatherbound and Diilcibella as two- and three-year-olds. 

 Weatherbound as a two-year-old was a selling-plater, and as 

 such won two httle races. Having been previously beaten 

 seven times, her selling price was only £\o. As a three-year- 

 old she suffered defeat no less than twelve times, only winning 

 two little races. When she came to me the same year, she 

 ran four times, and among her victories maybe mentioned the 

 Cambridgeshire Stakes, and division of the Sefton Handicap, 

 running well for two other races ; and she continued her 

 successful career the following year. 



Didcibellds form as a two-year-old was simply wretched. 

 She was placed last in a field of six at Newmarket, and in the 

 same hands ran little better in the early part of the following 

 year — Cape Fljaivay, a very moderate horse, giving her 171b. 

 and no one knows what beating, whilst in other and worse 



1 Promised Land, £2,2,^0; Cedric, ;^i,lOo; Sutherland, ,^l,coo; Tradiicer, 

 ;^i,50o; Conductor, ^1,000; Cedric the Saxon, £1,000 ; Albanus, £^00 ; Schism, 

 ^1,500. All these and many others shared the same fate as Benefactor, never 

 winning a race after leavinrj me. 



