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was constantly absent from home at the race 

 meetings where his horses had engagements. He 

 found it necessary, therefore, to call in my assist- 

 ance to do what I could towards managing the 

 vast stud under his care ; and most assiduous he 

 was in teaching me the art of training race-horses. 

 He carefully explained to me the various systems 

 of training adopted by different professors of that 

 art. As regards Mr Prince, my father regarded 

 him as too severe with horses of delicate constitu- 

 tions ; whereas Mr Boyce, though a most careful 

 and honest man, seemed to my father to be occa- 

 sionally too indulgent in dealing with some of his 

 horses. When my father left Mr Prince's stable, 

 and transferred himself as head-lad to that of Mr 

 R. D. Boyce, he remained with the latter for 

 many years. At last, in 1823, he was recom- 

 mended to the fifth Duke of Pichmond, by the 

 Earl of Stradbroke, as fit to take command of the 

 laro'e Goodwood stable. He remained at Good- 

 wood until his death in 1869, when he was 

 eighty -six years old. The Duke of Pichmond 

 kindly permitted him to occupy until his death 

 the house and garden at Goodwood, in both of 

 which he took the greatest delight. 



Mr Baker, who, as I have said, trained for the 

 Prince Pegent, continued to be very intimate with 

 my father from their school-days downwards until 

 my father left Newmarket for good. Their tastes 

 and habits were singularly harmonious, and nothing 



