I90 THE RACE AND ITS RESPONSIBILITIES. 



necessary. The attempt was a praiseworthy one ; but I fear 

 it is powerless to grapple with the evil it would crush, that a 

 plurality of names is as easily used to-day as it ever was. It 

 may be done. in either one of two ways : A gentleman intro- 

 duces five different persons to as many different trainers with 

 a request that they will in each case take a horse or two to 

 train and to be run in the trainer's name. I think the request 

 would be acceded to, and then it would not be possible to tell 

 either when the particular horses did run, or anything about 

 their real ownership. In the second case, a man registers for 

 five different persons five different names, or they do it indi- 

 vidually at his request, and yet the horses running under these 

 names may all belong to the one man, with little or no fear of 

 detection. 



Now that which should be done by people unwilling to run 

 a horse in their own name, is to find a friend in whose name 

 they can do so without the fact gaining publicity. Or, if they 

 have no such friend, they should, rather than register an 

 assumed name, which so many of necessity are cognizant of, 

 let him run in the name of his trainer, who has an interest at 

 stake to keep his secret. I do not say that this is done, but 

 it seems to me the best, if not the only way, for those to race 

 who do not wish others to know they do so ; whilst it is prudent 

 in addition to train in a quiet spot unmolested by touts. 



There is but one thing more that occurs to me as necessary 

 to advert to concerning the responsibilities of owners in 

 regard to the race itself. It is a subject I would willingly 

 leave untouched, were it not an evil, to my knowledge, of un- 

 suspected gravity. I refer to the anonymous letter-writer, the 

 cowardly assassin who stabs in the dark, fearing to face an 

 open foe. 



It is true these men only work mischief when they play 



