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and whose mind is not anxiously fixed upon 

 matters of business. But on the other hand the 

 trainer has a special satisfaction, which no one 

 but the owner can share, in watching his horses 

 gradually come to hand, and in seeing them make 

 the progress and development which are to lead, 

 as he hopes, to their brilliant successes on the 

 racecourse — where, by the way, he finds himself 

 an extraordinarily popular personage when he 

 chances to arrive at a meeting with two or three 

 animals whose prospects look good. I sufi^ered 

 from a slight attack of influenza not long since, 

 and had no idea what concern my health had 

 caused a great many people, some of whom I 

 scarcely knew by sight, until they came anxiously 

 to inquire about it — usually following up their 

 questions with regard to me with others about 

 the health of my horses. 



It is, I repeat, a pleasant life — when things go 

 right ; but then very often they go in the other 

 direction, which makes all the diff'erence, and 

 indeed the trainer is a lucky man if nothing is 

 wrong, for so many little things, and some big 

 things, are constantly arising to disturb him. 

 Some horse to which he has been paying par- 

 ticular attention undoubtedly goes short, if he be 

 not actually lame ; and he wonders what is the 



