190 THE RACE AND ITS RESPONSIBILITIES. 
necessary. The attempt was a praiseworthy one; but I fear 
it is powerless to grapple with the evil it would crush, and that 
‘a plurality of names is as easily used to-day as it everwas It 
may be done in either one of two ways: A gentleman intro- 
duces five different persons to as many different trainers with 
a request that they will in each case take a horse or two to 
train and to be run in the trainer’s name. I think the request 
would be acceded to, and then it would not be possible to tell 
either when the particular horses did run, or anything about 
their real ownership. In the second case, a man registers for 
five different persons five different names, or they do it indi- 
vidually at his request, and yet the horses running under these 
names may all belong to the one man, with little or no fear of 
detection. 
Now that which should be done by people unwilling to run 
a horse in their own name, is to find a friend in whose name 
they can doso without the fact gaining publicity. Or, if they 
have no such friend, they should, rather than register an 
assumed name, which so many of necessity are cognizant of, 
let him run in the name of the trainer, who has an interest at 
stake to keep the secret. I do not say that this is done, but 
it seems to me the best, if not the only way, for those to race 
who do nut wish others to know they do so; whilst it is prudent 
in addition to train in a quiet spot unmolested by touts. 
There is but one thing more that occurs to me as necessary 
to advert to concerning the responsibilities of owners in 
regard to the race itself. It is a subject I would willingly 
leave untouched, were it not an evil, to my knowledge, of un- 
suspected gravity. I refer to the anonymous letter-writer, the 
cowardly assassin who stabs in the dark, fearing to face an 
open foe. 
It is true these men only work mischief when they play 
