NEED OF <A STAYER.' 411 



trained; whereas Catch 'cm, Alive and Weatherbound 

 Avon it entirely from sheer gameness, both being 

 apparently quite beat past hope half a mile from 

 home. Again, Foxhall struggled for victory as for 

 life with the most indomitable pluck until the goal 

 was reached, receiving an ovation, of which the 

 American nation may well be proud, in recognition 

 of his unsurpassed 'gameness.' 



I think I have said sufficient to show that vou 

 must have a stayer if you want successfully to com- 

 pete in a race so difficult to win as the Cambridge- 

 shire is. And, moreover, to prove the result of the 

 respective trials as shown — all the six horses had a 

 most excellent chance for the race on the six different 

 occasions in which they took part in it; for four of 

 them won it, and the other two were only just beat, 

 and then through circumstances which, in a sense, 

 were accidental. The evidence leathered from the 

 facts before us goes largely to supplement what I 

 have insisted upon in my previous work — the reliance 

 to be placed upon trials when properly conducted. 



I now propose to give a detailed account of what 

 took place in the Cambridgeshire Stakes when Catch 

 ' 'em Alive won ; as we all know that, after winning, he 

 was objected to for not carrying, as was alleged, his 

 proper weight. I suppose the excitement caused 

 over this race was never equalled over any other that 

 took place at Newmarket — certainly not over any 

 that I can remember. To show how madly some of 



