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status in regard to the horse, and was not given a 

 chance. I was not the only sufferer, however. 



About this time there was an Enghshman in 

 Belgium, a young trainer, well educated, a good fellow 

 and a veterinary surgeon by profession although he 

 did not practise. For some reason or other he could 

 not obtain a licence in France and came to Belgium 

 to try his luck there. But he met with all sorts of 

 rebuffs and the endeavour seemed hopeless. \Miat 

 was it ? There was a whisper that he understood too 

 much about " dope " — a disgraceful allegation. The 

 bar was up in France and it seemed that he would find 

 it up perpetually in Belgium too. Time went on with 

 apparently no relaxing on the part of the Stewards. 

 At last, through very strong inside influence, that of a 

 big shareholder I think at one of the race-tracks, the 

 Englishman obtained permission. The trouble then 

 was to obtain a horse or two. Eventually he got hold 

 of one — a very bad actor and not an enviable animal 

 to make a start with. He took any amount of trouble, 

 however, with this " one and only " and won the first 

 five races the horse ran in ! Then followed more 

 persecution : after each of these five races there was 

 an objection lodged and all of them overruled. Can 

 you beat it ? In some cases it was a charge of " dope " 

 and in others something trivial. However, he had 

 shown what he could do, and a few more horses came 

 to him ; while in the following season he had more 

 offered to him than he could train, having a grand 

 string and winning any amount of races. 



That man is George Newton, who now is private 

 trainer in France for Mr Stern. He has the confidence 

 of his owner and all those he comes in touch with. 

 Good luck to him for the pluck he had in fighting on 

 and on and — beating 'em. 



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