THE AMERICAN SYSTEM CONSIDERED. III 
trainer, I think the distance might, in most cases, be curtailed 
beneficially, and the speed advantageously augmented and 
kept ata more uniform rate. The clothing, again, is super- 
abundant, and I should think such a load, in hot weather, 
must tend to weaken the horse. One thing is quite certain. 
If the Americans do not use too much, we use too little, and 
the knowledge of the happy medium would be of service 
here, as well as in the work done and the way of doing it. 
We appear to do fast and short work, while they do long and 
slow. If we made ours a little further and they made theirs 
a little shorter, probably both systems would be improved, 
whilst, in other respects, the plans of each might be adhered 
to. There is one thing pretty clear; the American horses, 
in spite of all the long work they do, have never stayed 
better than our own. This has been shown on many occasions, 
but never more clearly than in three long distance races, the 
Goodwood Cup and Stakes, and the Czesarewitch,’ under 
favourable circumstances as regards weights. These I won, 
beating them very easily with Promised Land, Elcho, and 
Dulcibella. Nevertheless, the victory of Prioress in the last- 
named race, after running a dead heat with AZ Hakim and 
Queen Bess, with a large field behind her, is evidence that the 
American system is not a bad one. 
But that, as compared with our own, there is something 
defective either in the system of training, or in their manage- 
ment, or in some other way, may, I think, be reasonably 
concluded from the fact that, with a fair opportunity of 
exhibiting their prowess, they were compelled to beat a 
retreat ; our horses showing themselves better than theirs, in 
my opinion, over any course. Mr. Sanford has not, up to 
this point, done much good with his little team, and if he have 
no better horses than, so far as we know, he owns at present, 
