CHAPTER XVI 



ENGLAND AND AMERICA 



Some American Trainers — Breaking my "Drum" — Rushing "on the 



Road"— Talk "English" 



In talking about English trainers I do not wish to be 

 charged with belittling some really good men. Many 

 trainers have had such extraordinary opportunities. 

 I believe a man like Harry Batho who trains at Alf riston 

 in Sussex might have been one of the most successful 

 of the English school had he been given the same 

 opportunities as the heads of what are known as 

 " aristocratic stables." Batho gets to know a horse, 

 and is clever in placing them too. 



Mr George Lambton proved what he could do when 

 he had something good to deal with — and I really 

 mean this, for I have taken a good deal of notice of 

 what he has done in this respect. He will ask ques- 

 tions and, with Wootton perhaps, has been the most 

 progressive in recent years. Despite vast experience 

 he will listen to sound advice. 



Some men in England would never take any tip at 

 all. For instance when I had that terrible fall on 

 Maluma in the Liverpool Cup which has been referred 

 to in a previous chapter, Robinson would run her 

 without plates. It was a terrible day, but he said she 

 had been used to nmning without shoes in Australia 

 and he supposed she would do her best without them 

 over here. The inevitable happened. As she was 

 barefooted I knew I was gone. It occurred round the 



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