INDEX, 



315 



special cases of public error when 

 horses have been reported ill, 181-5 ; 

 forestalling the real cause of absen- 

 teeism at the post, 185 ; owners and 

 their friends, 186, secrecy and its 

 value, ib., how secrets are divulged, 

 and fatal results, ib., exposure of 

 letters, 187 ; mistakes of eminent 

 tacticians explained, and instances, 

 187-9 ; errors of self-confidence, 

 189 ; publicity of registered names and 

 suggested remedy, 189-90; anony- 

 mous letters, 190-2 ; changeability of, 

 and its prejudice to the trainer,2io-i6 ; 

 eccentricity of, and instances, 214-15 ; 

 influence of servants, 215 ; deferred 

 payment of accounts, and its injustice, 

 216-18, instances of liberality, 218-19 ; 

 unexplained removal of horses and 

 other groundless complaints and their 

 unfairness to trainers and jockeys, 

 219-23; recommended one of three 

 courses in betting, 257-8 ; fallacy of 

 Professor Low's charges ' ' owners 

 laying against their own horses," 

 300-3 

 Oxonian: was fit when "light," 98; 

 curious instance of warranty with, 

 120 ; his performances in deep ground, 

 176 



Pace : necessity to see before purchas- 

 ing, 124 ; false pace, the cause of un- 

 satisfactory trials, 142 ; value of dis- 

 crimination of, in trials, 143 ; a 

 good pace essential in trials, ib. ; 

 disappointments in pace-made races 

 accounted for, instances at Good- 

 wood and Newmarket, 143-4 5 how 

 pace should be made, 143 ; results 

 of false pace, 147 ; pace in trials 

 and in races, 148 



Paddock, The : contrast of big and little 

 yearlings, in, 73 ; Lord George Ben- 

 tinck's custom, ib. ; Sir Tatton 

 Sykes's excellent method in, 74 



Palmerston's, Lord, removal of his stud 

 from Danebury through influence of 

 a servant, 215-16 



Palmistry, Purchase of, at Sledmere, 



133 



Parole, an instance of small horses 

 best as two-year-olds, 119; an example 

 of trial as a yearling, 149 



Parr's, Mr. T. , system of stable manage- 

 ment, and my objections to it, 19 



Partitions to boxes and stalls described, 5 



Pavement of stalls, its material and 

 slope, 7 



Payment of training accounts : hardship 

 of deferred payment, 216-19 ; diverse 

 instances, 216-18 ; bills and renewals, 

 2l6 ; instances of liberality, 218-19 



Pedestrians, Condition of (/^f/«^/c'), 57, 

 94 



Perseverance necessary to achieve fit- 

 ness, anecdote of the late Mr. R. 

 Stephenson, 107 



Pharsalus and the Metropolitan, Our 

 commission on, 252-5 



Philippa, Mr. Dixon's mistake with 

 her condition, 50 



Poll-evil, caused by neglect, 32 ; its 

 treatment, ib. 



■Popular notions. (See The Public) 



Portland, Duke of : an incident at 

 Welbeck Abbey ; remuneration of 

 jockeys in old times, 166 ; his objec- 

 tion to short races, 206 



Practicable reforms. {See Reforms) 



Preakness, " big " condition of, at 

 Epsom, 112 



Preparation :• 75-II2 ; past and present 

 systems contrasted, 75-7 ; sweating 

 no longer necessary, ib., my disuse of 

 it, 76, its evils, 77 ; other practices 

 happily abandoned, ib. ; other con- 

 trasts, 77-9 ; Mr. Lawrence on pre- 

 paration, 78 ; alteration in bridles, 

 ib. ; Sir C. Bunbury's method, 78 ; 

 Mr. T. Oliver's dictum 79 ; best 

 season for, 79 ; early preparation 

 advocated, ib. The process with the 

 two-year-old, 79-82, discrimination 

 of amount of exercise, 80, the 

 proper hours, 81, morning preferred, 

 ib., alternate rest and labour essential, 

 82. The process with older horses, 

 82-4, danger of overwork when 

 unfit, 82, training for long and short 

 courses, 83, the process with the 

 yearling, 84, Mr. Scott, Mr. Forth, 

 and Mr. John Day thereon, ib., my 

 own and other methods, ib., clothing, 

 ib., exercise in frost, ib. Essential 

 principles to be followed with horses 

 of all ages, 84-6, should be timely, 



85, the final gallops to be watched, 

 84-5, appetite, 85, examination of legs 

 and feet, 85, precautions against cold, 



86, exercise in wet and fog, instance 

 of its harmlessness, ii. Sunday 

 labour not necessary, and why, 87-9 ; 

 new theories, the Turkish bath, 

 89-90 ; impossibility to satisfy all, 



