1 82 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



more to be left unrewarded, and I felt very upset 

 by this indifference to my services. After turning 

 things over in my mind, I went to Mr. Gretton's 

 factotum, John Princep, and told him of Tom 

 Cannon's prospective reward. Then I added, 

 " You can tell Mr. Gretton that if I am not 

 treated the same as Tom Cannon he can take his 

 horses away from Kingsclere on Monday. I am 

 sick of seeing the jockey get everything and the 

 trainer nothing." When the race was over, and 

 having heard nothing, I saw Princep again and 

 told him I was going to call on Mr. Gretton at 

 his hotel the following morning. I duly called 

 at the hotel, to find Mr. Gretton still in bed. I 

 therefore went upstairs and knocked smartly on 

 his door. ** Come in," said Mr. Gretton. As 

 I entered, he swung his legs off the bed, and before 

 I had time to utter a word he exclaimed, " Mind, 

 you are on the same as Cannon." And so he 

 dissolved my wrath. 



I have always maintained that it is grossly 

 unfair of owners to treat their jockeys more 

 liberally than they do their trainers. For 

 months before a big race the trainer is in a per- 

 petual state of anxiety, and if he is able to present 

 the horse at the post thoroughly fit the credit 

 for the success which follows belongs mainly 

 to him. The jockey can, and often does, undo 

 in a minute the work of many weeks. I have 

 nothing to say against the jockey being suitably 



