CONTENTS. xiii 



CHAPTER XXI. 



TRAINERS AND JOCKEYS — A COMPARISON OF THE OLD 

 AND THE NEW. 



PAGE 



Change inevitable — The new school — Advantage taken of im- 

 proved educational facilities — Improved social position — 

 Imitation in amaranthine pleasures of their betters — Travelled 

 experiences — ' The sea-horse ' — Increased duties — Rapid ad- 

 vance from stable-boy to trainer — ' Success is genius ' — 

 Changed habits — Greater care of health — Relaxation — 

 Absurdity of early rising — Advantage of the jockey's control 

 of horses — Legitimate gains from stable secrets — Trainers 

 properly set right in trials — Marvellous horsemanship — Carp- 

 ing owners — Improved habits — The whole secret of training 

 revealed by a light-weight jockey. 



The modern stable — Added cares of the trainer — His needed 

 absence safeguarded — The vet. and the head-lad in sickness 

 — Condition balls and others — Flowers supersede the dung- 

 pit — Improvement in food and drink — Suggested additions — 

 Clemency of jockeys towards. owners— Apology for treating 

 the subject ______ 343-381 



CHAPTER XXII. 



ZACHARIAH SIMPSON, ESQ. 



Excellent position as a banker — Perverse misuse of it — An 

 example at Newmarket — Turf career — Our joint ownership 

 of horses. 



Traducer in the Two Thousand — The Gillies dead-heat 

 with Brick — The trial and the race — Manrico — Getting a 

 horse out of a well — A bet luckily recovered — Partial stud 

 successes — How a breeding establishment may be ruined — 

 Curious disposal of yearlings — Other costly occupations, and 

 result — A fortune saved on a pound a week — The teeth -test 

 with chickens and horses — How Delilah lost and won her 

 pedigree— Social attributes - 382-402 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



CAMBRIDGESHIRE TRIALS. 



Trial at Woodyates and Shipton, and performances in the race 

 of the following : AUbrool; Hobbie Noble, Weatherbound, 



