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tlemen who are on the turf to endeavour to re- 

 turn to the good old fashioned way of doing the 

 business of the stables and their horses, viz. 

 by keeping their private training groom and 

 jockey on their own premises. Honesty is the 

 best policy; and no doubt there are plenty of 

 men in each of the above capacities still to be 

 found that will do justice to their employers; 

 and when such men can be had, confidence, 

 should be placed in them, that is, if they are 

 found upon trial to be men of integrity they 

 should be encouraged in the way I have already 

 mentioned. It will not be found to answer 

 the purpose of the owner of a stable of race 

 horses to act towards his training groom and 

 jockey as he might do to the domestic ser- 

 vants of his family; the latter, if they did not 

 suit him, he might discharge, and hire others 

 in their places, without any great inconvenience 

 to his establishment. But for the owner to dis- 

 miss for a mere trifle either his trainer or 

 jockey, both of whom, we are to suppose, are 

 not only good judges of their art, but know 

 well the constitutions and tempers of the horses, 

 which they may have had for a long time un- 

 der their care, (unless they should be found to 

 be tricky), would be attended, for some time. 



