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warnings, others advice. Appetite fell off, sleep was 

 banished from that trainer's pillow, and a chronic 

 state of bad health seemed likely to result; but time 

 and the hour Avore on, and the race well ovtr — and, 

 what is better, won — the appetite returned, the faculty 

 of sleeping came back, and health and serenity were 

 restored. 



The master of an important training-stable, having 

 as customers five or six gentlemen, each being owner 

 of half a dozen horses, and each more ambitious than 

 the other of winning everything for Avhich he enters 

 them, has not his sorrows to seek. The only way by 

 which jealousies can be kept down, and discipline 

 maintained, is to allow one or other of the patrons of 

 the stable to direct affairs — the others playing second 

 fiddle. But such arrangements are not easy to carry 

 out — each peison being suspicious of his neighbour. 

 Sir John Randolph is always thinking that Sir 

 Randolph Jones is being favoured in some way, and 

 ' rows ' nut infrequently take place in consequence. The 

 trainer may be as honest and upright as man can be, 

 doing his duty by all the horses in his stable, but the 

 fact will be doubted by some one or other of his em- 

 ployers, so that there come quarrels, secessions, and 

 changes. In several stables every owner fights for his 

 own hand, so that the trainer has much suffering to 

 endure when one of his patrons wins a race in wdiich 

 the other owners have also something- runniu"'. It is all 



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in vain they are told the best horse has won ; they will 

 not believe that, and think themselves ill-used. ^Vhcn 

 a trainer trains for several patrons, all of them inde- 

 pendent of each other, he has a delicate part to play, 



