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schooling into all the mysteries of professional horse- 

 manship. He then learned to regard race riding as a 

 fine art, which requires nerve, brain, strength, hand, seat, 

 and, above all things, sympathy with the horse — that 

 sort of feeling which comes through your knees and tells 

 you what pressure he is working at. That great Arab 

 Galloway, Caliph, whom I trained for many victories, 

 completed the riding education of " Captain Dudley," 

 who won on him seventeen races in one year, at all 

 sorts of burdens, for he taught the then adjutant of the 

 9th Bengal Cavalry how to wait. This matchless grey 

 knew, as I have said before, more about racing than 

 many professionals, and could judge the right moment 

 to " come," in a close thing, far better than most men 

 who had ridden him. Captain Dudley found out that 

 he dared not commence riding him when coming home 

 until the horse gave the invariable signal, a long lung- 

 filling breath, and then he could sit down on him and 

 finish with the fullest confidence that the little Arab 

 would respond to his call with unflinching gameness. 



Captain Dudley had a most successful season in 

 1869-70, winning out of fifty-six mounts, forty-two races, 

 running second ten times, being third three times, 

 and unplaced only once ! Some of these wins, such as 



