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all day " with her kirtle up to her knee ;" but she was 

 not one whit more knowing and enthusiastic about 

 " long-tails" than Mrs. Day was about thorough- 

 breds. Her family maxims, moreover, were quite as 

 sound as her stable ones, and she impressed ** The 

 Whole Duty of Man" on her children, if our memory 

 serves us, in the following wholesome couplet : — 



" Fear thy God, speak evil of none, 

 Stick to the tnith, and don't be done." 



Training as a system is very much lighter than 

 it was years ago ; and heavy-clothed sweats are fast 

 going out of fashion, except a horse is fearfully 

 gross ; and then, if his legs are shaky, he is trained as 

 a forlorn hope " through the muzzle." Tiny Edwards 

 used to say that he was obliged to keep Glencoe per- 

 petually at it, or " he would have got above himself, 

 and everyone else into the bargain." Springy Jack 

 was also one of the fat kine, inside and out ; and so 

 was Voltigeur till his heart was so broken in his 

 match preparation that his form wholly left him, 

 and he could not even be coaxed to feed in John 

 Scott's hands. Nancy was an odd instance of a 

 mare who required no work beyond a few half-speed 

 gallops ; and it was always a peculiarity of Phryne's 

 stock and the Venisons that they ran in flesh, 

 while the Bay Middletons generally bore drawing 

 fine. To convert flesh into muscle is, however, the 

 great problem. Railway faciUties enable trainers to 

 keep their horses always at it in public ; and the 

 Parr-Osborne principle suits the majority of hardy 

 ones. Perhaps the most extraordinary specimens of 

 modern hard-workers are Clothworker, who won 30 

 out of 59 races in two seasons ; Rataplan, who owns 

 to 38 out of 62 in the same time ; while Fisherman 

 scored 23 out of his 34 three-year-old, and Lord 

 Alford 9 out of his 24 two-year-old races, or nearly 

 three times as many as Crucifix ran. The training- 



