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such form as they possessed, through tiring from 

 weakness. His Lordship soon came to the same 

 opinion as that inculcated after long experience 

 by my father, and now repeated by me after sixty 

 years of familiarity with the Turf in all its depart- 

 ments. If there be any art in training race-horses, 

 it consists in knowing when they are perfectly fit 

 to run the distance for which they are destined 

 by Nature. Such knowledge can only be gained 

 by close observation and practical experience. I 

 could enumerate a vast number of horses which, 

 within my knowledge, have been sacrificed from 

 lack of judgment and skill in ascertaining what 

 was their best distance and what their constitu- 

 tions required. One instance I will mention which 

 will perhaps be remembered by some who read 

 these remarks, as it happened in 1865. 



In that year Mr Padwick had a three-year-old 

 called Kangaroo, who stood at Drewitt's stable at 

 Lewes, but was under my supervision. With 

 Kangaroo I won for Mr Padwick the Abbot Stakes 

 at Chelmsford on March 28, 1865 ; the Craven 

 Handicap at Lewes on March 30 ; and the New- 

 market Biennial on April 18. In the last-named 

 race Kangaroo beat a field of nineteen starters, 

 scattering them in such a manner after making 

 strong running that the Marquis of Hastings gave 

 Mr Padwick 12,000 guineas and contingencies for 

 the horse, upon the strength of his having easily 

 defeated the Duke of Beaufort's Koenig, whom 



