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of those belonging to others) stoutly declared in these cases 
that neither were fit, though their running then and subse- 
quently sufficiently proved the folly of such an opinion and 
the penalty incurred in uttering it. 
Even trainers may be, and no doubt some of us at times 
are, deceived. As a proof that the public are not always 
alone in this respect, I confess to:having been grievously 
deceived on two or three occasions. One Act misled me, and 
so did a colt by Coranna out of Eyebright. Asa thrée-year-old, 
I thought Sz. Gzles fit and tried him, but he was little 
more than half fit to run a distance of ground, and was dis- 
gracefully beaten in his trial ten days before Northampton. 
Knowing that, as a two-year-old, he had stayed well, I con- 
cluded he must require more work than he had had, to make 
him stay as a three-year-old. I therefore galloped him every 
day two miles till the Saturday previous to the race, and then 
tried him, with the same tackle and the same weight, over the 
same course, when he won just as far as before he had been 
defeated. He went to Northampton and won the stakes with 
ease, beating perhaps the best horse in England (Skirmisher) 
according to his subsequent running. 
The case of One Act is very similar ; the mare having, as I 
thought, done sufficiently good work for months previously, I 
tried her, when she was beaten very easily. This I attributed 
,to her condition, or rather the want of it, and set about im- 
’ proving it in the same method—galloping her every day, two 
and a quarter miles till just before her race at York. I sent 
her for this as I had done Sz G7des, and with the same fortunate 
result. She won the two great handicaps at York, and fol- 
lowed up these successes by winning the Chester Cup in the 
following week, “looking like a rail.’ These facts, it may be 
readily conceived, remain indelibly engraven in my memory. 
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