Owners I have Trained for 



to the bravest heart ! I rejoiced to see the last 

 of " Brookwood," as he had nearly seen the last 

 of me, to say nothing of the humiliation endured : 

 those mud-stains linger. 



Mr H. " Westbury," the then assumed name 

 of Mr Goodson, the well-known bookmaker, had 

 a number of horses in my stable, and they won 

 in, if not out of, their turn. " Lord William " — 

 previously mentioned — belonged to him, whilst 

 he also had " Syndic," with whom he won a lot 

 of races ; " J. B.," a horse that could go, and 

 wouldn't, bless him ! and " Dancing Laddie," who 

 appropriated a two-year-old race at Epsom. I 

 did not consider it desirable to take that mount 

 myself, saying to the owner : " ' Jack Watts ' is 

 good enough for me at a crisis like this " — there 

 was plenty of money on ; and " Jack Watts " 

 certainly proved to be too good for the others 

 who then opposed "Dancing Laddie." It was 

 a "sweetening" victory, an artistic "touch." 

 Others followed of equal succulence and merit. 

 We did pretty well in a general way, and most 

 of the notable results achieved were satisfactory. 



Another staunch patron of mine was Mr H. 

 Hyams. I trained many horses for him, and, 

 according to the best of my recollection, they 

 were all winners. That establishes, perhaps, a 



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