TOD SLOAN 



turn : she slipped sideways. I always think with 

 plates on that day she couldn't have lost. 



Charles Morton would favour me by asking me 

 questions from time to time. If he didn't agree with 

 all my replies (and I didn't expect him to) still with 

 my experience and natural " horse sense " he often 

 found some pointer or other worth taking. Morton 

 is a man of ripe judgment. 



The strokes that some trainers put across a jockey 

 are wicked sometimes. I remember riding an animal 

 in one of the big back-end handicaps. Before we 

 were off I knew I was on a dead 'un. It was a bit 

 maddening, and it was natural to feel furious on 

 returning to the paddock. 



The trainer said to me, " She'll run better in a fort- 

 night," and gave me a look of intelligence. 



" Not with me on," I replied. " I'm not going to 

 ride her." 



He threatened to take me before the stewards but 

 — not a bit of it. 



The same man sent me in a bill for £375 for bets, 

 a lot of it on the dead 'un I have just referred to, and 

 pressed me to pay him. 



"All right," I wrote ; "I'm going to Weatherby's, 

 who keep all my accounts, and I'll get them to transfer 

 £375 for bets over to you, I suppose they'll ask me 

 what it's for." He had got me altogether for £1400 

 and he wrote to me, " For God's sake, don't say any- 

 thing at all about going to Weatherby's." That was 

 good enough for me, and there was never any reason to 

 give that claimed money another thought, for he had 

 put it across me. 



Of the modern trainers the American Sam Hildreth, 

 who was over in France for a time and went back 

 when Mr Kohler died, has been a trainer of the highest 



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