CHAPTER VI. 



OWNERS AND TRAINERS. 



The responsibilities associated witli the duties of 

 a trainer of race-horses are prodigious, if one only 

 takes into account what is committed to his charge 

 in the matter of pounds, shillings and pence. In 

 this, of course, there are questions of degree, for 

 while some may have in their care what may 

 amount in point of value only to a few hundred 

 pounds, there are others, and many of them, in this 

 country who may total a sum to very many thou- 

 sands, and even to tens of thousands of pounds. 



Trainers' responsibilities by no means end with 

 the mere physical duties of training, laborious as 

 they are. They have in numerous cases the entii-e 

 management of an owner's racing stud. Probably 

 there will be several patrons identified with the 

 stable, all of whom may be described as "large own- 

 ers," whose interests must severally be an object 



