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instance, you may try two horses at Newmarket 

 on Monday, when it is good going, and take them 

 to a course Hke Leicester, when there has been 

 a lot of wet, and you could not even calculate the 

 difference the state of the going would result in. 



Miner stayed in England about two years, and 

 was succeeded by Pryor, another American, who 

 afterwards went to France to train for Baron 

 Schickler, and did well by him. He returned to 

 America from France, and I should think by now 

 must be dead. Pryor was a very clever trainer 

 indeed, and one of the most attentive men to his 

 horses I ever knew. Afterwards Mr. Ten Broeck 

 took more to English training and English ways, 

 but not before he had lost a lot of money on the 

 turf; he was a great admirer of George Fordham, 

 who always rode for him when he possibly could, 

 and said he was one of the best masters he ever 

 had. 



Although Mr. Ten Broeck was a shrewd man, 

 I do not think he was what I should call a 

 clever man ; he fancied himself too much at any 

 game. I shall never forget him riding a match at 

 Warwick against, I think, Captain Little. The 

 American was dressed in a most extraordinary way 

 for a sporting gentleman. He wore a pair of very 



