8o THE RACING WORLD 



filly ran twice unsuccessfully, and was sold for 

 600 guineas — less than half she cost — at the end 

 of the season. One of the two-year-olds I had 

 last bought scrambled through a selling race, and 

 brought me in £2°^' ^^ ^Y thirteen, at the end 

 of the year five remained, the other eight having 

 returned me 1,303 guineas, which, deducted from 

 the 8,275 I had laid out, left the quintet costing 

 6,972 guineas — much more than twice their value. 

 I am asked to give as much information as I 

 can in the way of figures, but this is not very 

 easy, because, comparing my own bills with 

 those which friends have shown me for the 

 purpose of this article, I find that items difi^er 

 vastly ; and then, of course, there is the question 

 of entries. My Treasure, whom I had engaged 

 so freely, ran me into over £joo in forfeits. 

 Travelling is one of the items which seems to 

 cost different trainers different amounts when 

 the same journeys are undertaken and just the 

 same accommodation provided. To send a horse 

 to a meeting and get him home again ought to 

 average about £12, and some of my friends, I 

 am aware, are charged a great deal more. In 

 round figures, if a horse be moderately entered, 

 and fulfils about eight engagements in the season, 

 he will cost his owner, including training ex- 



