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won easily. The great trainer may have had occasionally 
his own motives which fatness assisted ; but I conceive the 
chief one was to please the public—a predilection which in 
some cases forced him to part with good horses simply 
because run out of condition. 
Two or three cases may be named to show either that he 
was not quite proof against public opinion, or that he mistook 
the merits of his own horses. Adamas was lost in this way 
in a Selling Plate to be sold for £40. In the following year he 
won the City and Suburban and was third for the Derby. The 
“ra was also claimed out of a Selling Plate and afterwards ran 
third for the Goodwood Cup, and won the Manchester Cup, and 
other good races ; whilst Michael Scott’s running was wretched . 
both as a two- and three-year-old. At the latter age he ran 
seven races and in many carried the lightest weight—mostly 
in bad company; yet he was unable to win one, or even get 
placed whilst in the hands of Mr. Scott. This worst of all 
brutes then passes into other hands, and within a month com- 
mences his successful career by winning the Great North Riding 
Handicap at Northallerton, and adding six more races consecu- 
tively to his list of winnings that year. He therefore loses 
seven races while at Malton and wins seven after leaving it. 
He was afterwards sold for a large sum to go abroad. 
What would be said if such an occurrence took place with 
any one that professed to train his horses light? My father 
always trained his horses light, saying, “Show me a better 
plan, and I will gladly follow it.” But as none was forth- 
coming, he continued in the same way with the greatest suc- 
cess. In no single case but that of Zoothil/ was any horse 
made better after leaving his stable; and this exception was 
clearly traceable to the ground, as it afterwards appeared 
that Zoothzl could not move on hard turf in such a state as 
