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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



for him to look on at other people riding in it, as he did in the race of 1 903, when 

 many people thought Vinicius would have got nearer winning if he had been 

 given the Frenchman's mount. But Morny got his revenge in the Oaks, which 

 he won on Mr. J. B.. Joel's Our Lassie, by Ayrshire, out of a daughter of Melton, 

 and the crowd showed their appreciation by giving him a rousing reception. 



His father Tom Cannon's energies have by no means been exhausted with race- 

 riding or jockey-making. He has now followed the example of many other famous 

 jockeys and become a trainer, and after what has been said of the experience gained 

 by a jockey's life, it is clear that few better apprenticeships could be served for the 

 still more responsible profession of training, in which, perhaps, the first essential 

 is to be a sound judge of condition, in order to give each animal its proper work, 



By permission of Mr. Culvert. 



On the Ogbourne Dott'/ts, Wiltsliire. 



to enter it for the races that will suit it best, and to draw the right conclusions 

 from its trials. And the second essential is like unto it, for the moment when a 

 trainer gets his yearlings, if it is among the most interesting in his life, is also one 

 of the most important. He always hopes for the "unknown treasure," the animal 

 that is to turn out "the Horse of the Century," whatever is sent him; but if he 

 is apt to look for it first among the stock that were bought at auction on his own 

 advice, he must remember that it is just as likely to turn up among the queer-looking 

 brutes sent him by owners from their own stud farms. So strange are the ways 

 by which Nature comes to her own, that racing men have been reduced to thinking 

 that "they run in all shapes." Certainly if the anatomy of the classic winners 

 were ruthlessly dissected, it would be difficult to arrive at any average form that 



