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crssful in England, with the odds against them, to say 

 nothing of the chmate, change of feed, water, etc., is 

 hke hojiing against hope ; and those who have hiuded 

 them to the skies, and built up expectations not to be 

 realized, will have to answer to a disappointed public' 

 Jacob Pincus, the trainer of Iroquois, came in for 

 a large share of observation on his arrival on the 

 Newnjarket training-grounds. The ways of American 

 trainers are not as the ways of Engli.^hmen following 

 the same pursuit. Jacob was well versed in his business, 

 and had served a long apprenticeship before arriving 

 in Europe, Twenty-six years ago he rode Mr. Ten 

 Broeck's Pryor in the first race he ran ; he filled the 

 saddle for various other American breeders and owners 

 of horses, and in his time has superintended the train- 

 ing of some of the more notable Transatlantic race- 

 liorses. Pincus has the great merit of 'making' 

 Iroouois; and the colt gave his trainer such a vast 

 amount of trouble as to render his work no sinecure. 

 The liorse had as a two-j'car old undergone a severe 

 orileal, having been called upon to run twelve races, 

 some of them, too, with very heavy weights upon his 

 back. Various ills overtook the horse — swelled knees, 

 indigestion, loss of appetite, etc. ; but care and atten^ 

 tion brought him round, till ultimately Pincus led him 

 in as a winner of the greatest English race. Mean- 

 time, Barrett, in the same stable, became a public 

 fancy. Passaic was aL.o trained in the American 

 stable at one time, bu^ was parted with ; and it may 

 be somewhat mortifying to those who once owned him 

 that he proved good enough to win an important 

 handicap. 



