324 
trainer of their officious interference, 
instances from my own experience, 
211-14 
Frost, Exercise in, 84 
Fu, itive, curious instance of sore shins 
with, 35; an instance of fitness when 
“light,” 98 
“GALLOPING FOR A START,” a grow- 
ing evil, and its remedy, 275 
Galopin, an instance of the excellence 
of the modern thoroughbred, 240 
Gamos, extraordinary defeats and suc- 
cesses of, compared with the case of 
Lady Elizabeth, 159 
General Ffesse, Illustrative trial of, with 
an Arab, 146 
Gentleness essential in breaking, 65 
Gifts to boy-jockeys condemned, 163 
Glenlivat, a high-priced failure, 126 
Glossy coats. (See Coats, RouGH 
AND GLossy) 
Goodwood Stakes, The: our commission 
on, 253-4; the result examined, 254 
Grafton’s, The Duke of, gift to his 
jockey @ contrast with our times, 
16 
re Sleeves : a case analogous to that 
of Lady Elizabeth, 158 
Greville’s, Mr. C. C., career as a 
tactician, 188-9 ; cause of its partial 
success, 189; anecdote of Perkins, 
26. 
Griping, Prevention of, 18 
Grosvenor’s, Lady, objection to the 
name ‘‘ Crucifix,” 119 
HAmILton’s, DUKE oF, good fortune 
in a ‘‘ declaration to win,” 171 
Handicaps: curious belief in special 
condition for, 54-5 ; at Newmarket 
and Goodwood, tabulated to show 
preponderance of boy-riders, 203-4 
Hand-rubbing preferred to bandages, 
16 
Hardships of the trainer. 
FESSIONAL HARDSHIPS) 
vee Scenes at, in times gone by, 
281 
Hastings, Marquess of: career of, 241- 
2, its assumed disastrous result re- 
futed, 242; contrasted with that of 
the Earl of Derby, and satisfactory 
inference, 242-3 
Hay: the, lofts, 5; must be grown on 
good land, 24 
(See PRo- 
INDEX. 
~ Head-collar, the, Attention to, neces: 
sary, 38 
Head-lad. The : a good head-lad neces- 
sary, 21-2; multifarious occupations 
of the trainer, 22; duties of the 
head-lad, 22-3 
Heats in the old times, 239 
Heavy-weight jockeys. (See JOCKEYS) 
‘Hellfire Dick” and the Duke of 
Queensberry, 238 
Hermit: fit when rough, 44; trust- 
worthiness of trials proved in his case, 
154; his reported accident and the 
public, 185 
Hero, The, his lameness and subse- 
quent recovery, an instance of popu- 
lar fallacy in respect to ‘ scratching,” 
182-3 
fferoine, an instance of two-year-old 
running as a small horse, 119; wins 
the first yearling race, 70. 
Hippodrome, The, Scenes at, in times 
gone by, 281 
fistorian : was fit when ‘‘big,” 473 
an instance of endurance, though 
broken early, 70, also, that severe 
preparaticn is not necessarily harm- 
ful, 97 ; supports the argument for 
‘light ” preparation, 98 
Hocks, (Se LEcs) 
Hours of stable work, 15 
Hunter, The : performances of, under 
heavy weights—Mr. I'dges, Mr. Asshe- 
ton-Smith, Mr. Farquharson, 194 ; 
improvement in, 232 
IN-AND-OUT running : running of horses 
as two-and as three-year-olds contrast- 
ed, and instances, to1, the subject ex- 
amined, certain remarkable instances, 
107-10, the discrepancy explained, 
109-10, the lesson to be learned, 20.; 
variations in health, 107 
Increase in number of horses in train- 
ing, 228-9 
ris, Illustrative trial of with Crucifix, 
147 
Jester, in-and-out running of, examined 
and explained, 108; an instance ot 
an unfashionably-bred winner, 135 
Jockey Club, The: reforms instituted 
by, in weights and distances. 201, 
their further powers, 24.; petition to, 
from able jockeys suggested, 206 ; 
