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' Knio-ht of the Garter ' in the Middle Park Plate. 

 This 1 have explained in a previous chapter, and 

 how I could not do so without forfeiting my word to 

 General Pearson, as I had promised to ride the 

 llsley filly ' Achievement.' 



The system of training racehorses has been con- 

 siderably altered since I first went to Newmarket 

 thirty-seven years ago — I mean so far as sweating 

 and gallopnig are concerned. You seldom, if ever, 

 see or hear of a horse bein^ sweated now ; but at 

 the time I have just mentioned it was quite a common 

 thing to see fifteen or twenty horses sweated in one 

 morning ; and at that time there were not one-fourth 

 of the number of animals in training at Newmarket 

 that there are now. It was the fashion to sweat a 

 horse whether he was a gross or light animal 

 once a week, and in some cases three times a fort- 

 night ; in fact, they were trained by rule, and no one 

 seemed to dare to alter the system, although it 

 was often talked of. Perfectly well do I recollect 

 when Mr. Joseph Dawson first went to train at 

 Newmarket, that he was ridiculed and laughed at for 

 not sv.eating his horses in the same fashion as other 

 trainers did ; but he outlived all the ridicule, and had 

 the satisfaction of seeing his own method of training 

 come into vogue long before he died. I believe it 



