SUNDAY LABOUR NOT NECESSARY. 87 
atatime. Fog, as I have hinted, I do not like, because, if 
very thick, there is danger. I can relate a most remarkable 
instance which happened during a trial at Newmarket on 
a Good Friday, and which comes to me from the highest 
authority. 
On a beautiful spring morning, after the “dolls and 
chains” had been removed to allow the horses room to 
pass through, in galloping “across the flat,’ just before 
starting The Two Middle Miles, or immediately afterwards, 
a most dense fog very quickly arose; the jockeys went out 
of the course and all fell over the chains and dolls that 
were left standing, with such terrible effect that some of the 
horses and jockeys were killed, and others so dreadfully 
shaken that they never got over it, the surviving horses 
being rendered useless. I daresay there are trainers and 
others living who remember this occurrence and may have 
known both the jockeys and the names of the horses. 
And this story brings one to the question of Sunday work. 
As with sweating so with this practice—I have not taken a 
horse to exercise on a Sunday this last quarter of a century. 
Ovid says, “ Alternate rest and labour, long endure;” and 
my dislike to Sunday labour is not my only reason for abolish- 
ing it; I think to do so benefits my horses. Since 1850, up 
to which time it was on the increase, sweating has gone out 
of fashion, and so, too, Iam happy to say of late years, has 
Sunday labour. 
I may adduce here a few reasons for Sunday rest. First, 
then, I believe it is essentially necessary that horses in strong 
work should have absolute rest periodically allowed to them 
to recruit their wasted strength. Why should the racehorse 
be the only animal in captivity doomed to perpetual slavery? 
He is worked till he becomes as stale as some unfortunate 
