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thing that could race. If we have anything that shows 

 speed, it is bred from. They don't do that. They 

 look to soundness first. I have had an opportunity 

 since the minutes of the evidence taken before the 

 Royal Commission were published in a Blue Book 

 of reading the testimony of other witnesses with 

 regard to the matters on which I was questioned, 

 Matthew Dawson and I are not in complete agree- 

 ment on certain points, but where the difference 

 does arise, it appears to me rather to take the 

 general form of satisfaction with things as they are 

 and have been during his long experience than the 

 advancement of any views opposed to my own. 



' " He has not paid attention to late as contrasted 

 with early foals ; he does not know any reason why 

 an early foal should be a roarer any more than a 

 later one ; " and although, to quote his own words, 

 " we leave them exposed in bad weather and all 

 that," " we take all the care we can of them in bad 

 weather." On this point we are entirely agreed. 

 We do. I have referred to his evidence, first, 

 because he and I were the only trainers of race- 

 horses summoned before the Commission, and, 

 secondly, because I venture to think that what my 

 old friend said on my pet subject did not shake 

 my position in the least. Neither is my view as to 

 the injuriousness of short " sprint" races to horse 

 and jockey and everything affected in the least by 

 Matthew Dawson's approval of such violent bursts. 

 In his evidence before the Commission Professor 

 G. T. Brown, C.B., said in answer to Mr. Chaplin, 



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