TWO AND THREE-YEAR-OLD RUNNING CONTRASTED. to1 
when trained and trying them so continually, that deserves 
censure, and should be abandoned. Yohknny Armstrong and 
Sultan, the only old horses that I remember ever giving a 
high price for, did not suffer from the change of treatment if 
they had been previously leniently trained. The former beat 
most of the horses of his day at Newmarket ; whilst Su/ran 
won the Cambridgeshire as a three-year-old very easily, 
carrying 7 stone 6 lbs. 
Facts are more telling than arguments. I may therefore 
refer to the horses once under my care, and afterwards sold, 
and trained by the most eminent trainers, which never won a 
solitary race for their new owners. Of these the names and 
the prices paid for them will be found at foot. 
It will be to the point to compare, here, the running of 
Weatherbound and Dulcibella as two- and three-year-olds. 
Weatherbound as a two-year-old was a selling-plater, and as 
such won two little races. Having been previously beaten 
seven times, her selling price was only £40. As a three-year- 
old she suffered defeat no less than twelve times, only winning 
two little races. When she came to me the same year, she 
ran four times, and among her victories may be mentioned the 
Cambridgeshire Stakes, and division of the Sefton Handicap, 
running well for two other races; and she continued her 
successful career the following year. 
Dulcibella's form as a two-year-old was simply wretched. 
She was placed last in a field of six at Newmarket, and in the 
same hands ran little better in the early part of the following 
year—Cape Flyaway, a very moderate horse, giving her t7lb. 
and no one knows what beating, whilst in other and worse 
1 Promised Land, £2,350; Cedric, £1,100; Sutherland, £1,000; Traducer, 
£1,500 ; Conductor, £1,000; Cedric the Saxon, £1,000 ; Albanus, £700; Schism, 
1,500. All these and many others shared the same fate as Benefactor, never 
winning a race after leaving me. 
