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do you think of the colt?” gazing intensely on him, he sud- 
denly exclaimed, ““Who! what, Perkins ?”—an incident that 
caused much laughter among the assembled guests, in which 
the chief actor did not join. Indeed, I do not ever remember 
his taking part in any hilarities. 
Nevertheless, Mr. Greville was deservedly much liked by all 
classes of racing men, as also was the Admiral. But I think 
that he, like the latter, placed too much reliance on his own 
unaided efforts, and thought about as lightly of the trainer’s 
opinion as the Admiral did of that of his jockey—of whom 
he used to say if he had followed his advice, he would have 
been ruined cver and over again. It is quite certain from the 
Admiral’s own account, that he ignored the advice of his 
jockey, and as he generally made his matches impromptu, his 
ill-success could not fairly be attributed to the fault of either 
the jockey or the trainer. I may add, that, so far as I may be 
permitted to judge, I am of opinion that this self-confidence is 
prevalent with far too many gentlemen in the present day ; 
and with the same probably unlooked-for and yet inevitable 
result—the loss of money and the severance of friends. 
In respect to the question of secrecy, some as we know 
prefer to race in assumed names; but I think that very few 
who do so can thus hide their identity. The late Mr. Graham, 
who changed his registered name perhaps oftener than any 
other person, was as well known by the last as the first, a few 
days after registration. But my impression is that the object 
of registering a name was not so much to hide the identity of 
an individual. I believe the practice originated chiefly from 
a desire to prevent the recurrence of such a thing as that one 
man should run the whole of the five horses that started in a 
race in five different names. It was thought that registration 
would cause the ownership of each horse to be defined when 
