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the Stars and Stripes of America — red and white 

 striped jacket, with blue stars and blue cap. This 

 sportsman also had good horses in * Umpire,' 

 who won the Goodwood Nursery, and ' Prior ' and 

 ' Prioress.' The latter won the Cesarewitch of 1857, 

 after a dead heat with ' El Hakim ' and ' Queen 

 Bess,' and was only beaten a head the next year by 

 ' Rocket,' running the dead heat for second place I 

 have already mentioned. These horses were trained 

 by Miner, a man Mr. Ten Broeck brought over with 

 him, and a very clever trainer he was. At first he 

 started training here on the American style, a very 

 different system to ours. Our Transatlantic cousins 

 believed in very long slow work, and a great deal 

 of sweating. I well remember ' Prioress ' having a 

 three-mile sweat between the race and the deciding 

 heat for the Cesarewitch. It came off right that 

 time, but I think putting Fordham up instead of 

 Tankerley in the deciding heat had something to do 

 with the result. In course of time Miner found out 

 that ours was a different climate, and adopted more of 

 our style of training. He also told me he didn't 

 believe in the clock, or in timing races over here, 

 where courses and climate are so different and 

 variable ; and for that very reason I have never 

 believed in the time test in this country. For 



