OLD MAT. ABSOLUTELY RIGHT 113 



come on since I saw him last, and the only doubtful 

 point to my mind is whether Gallican or anything in the 

 stable is good enough to sharpen him up. ... Doubt- 

 less if a better horse is wanted a better will be obtained, 

 and for the present I see not the slightest reason to 

 doubt that Ladas will, bar accidents, win the Two 

 Thousand Guineas, Derby and Leger. 



" The Sportsman" 2%th April 1894. 

 MATHEW DAWSON agrees to some extent with what I 

 wrote in Wednesday's issue as to the desirability of 

 good horses taking their cue from good ones how to 

 gallop, but he points out that this applies in the main 

 to the early education of race-horses. Once the art of 

 going has been fairly mastered by a youngster, no harm 

 is done by letting him go with others of more moderate 

 calibre. 



Good old Mat. was, of course, absolutely right in his 

 method of training Ladas, who wanted no encourage- 

 ment to do his best. As regards teaching young ones 

 to gallop, he told me that Lord John Scott used to turn 

 his greyhounds out into the paddocks so as to give his 

 yearlings a lesson. Anyhow there was no mistake with 

 Ladas, who won the Two Thousand Guineas in a canter. 



11 The Sportsman," loth April 1894. 



"WHAT price about scientific breeding now?" asked 

 Tom Castle after Ladas, the most symmetrically bred 

 horse in training, had cantered in to-day, to the con- 

 fusion of the ignoramuses who do not understand how 

 blood will tell. For my part, I can honestly state that 

 I did not for the moment regard the great victory from 

 a personal point of view, but thought rather of good old 



