INDEX. 
special cases of public error when 
horses have been reported ill, 181-5 ; 
forestalling the real cause of absen- 
teeism at the post, 185 ; owners and 
their friends, 186, secrecy and its 
value, 76., how secrets are divulged, 
and fatal results, 26., exposure of 
letters, 187; mista-es of eminent 
tacticians explained, and instances, 
187-9, errors of — self-confidence, 
189 ; publicity of registered names and 
suggested remedy, 189-90; anony- 
mous letters, 190-2 ; changeability of, 
and its prejudice to the trainer, 210-16 ; 
eccentricity of, and instances, 214-15 ; 
influence of servants, 215; deferred 
payment of accounts, and its injustice, 
216-18, instances of liberality, 218-19 ; 
unexplained removal of horses and 
other groundless complaints and their 
unfairness to trainers and jockeys, 
219-23; recommended one of three 
course. in betting, 257-8; fallacy of 
Professor Low’s charges ‘‘ owners 
laying against their own horses,” 
311-14 
Oxonian: was fit when “light,” 98; 
curious instance of warranty with, 
120 ; his performances in deep ground, 
176 
PACE: necessity to see before purchas- 
ing, 124 ; false pace, the cause of un- 
satisfactory trials, 142; value of dis- 
crimination of, in trials, 143; a 
good pace essential in trials, 72d. ; 
disappointments in pace-made races 
accounted for, instances at Good- 
wood and Newmarket, 143-4, how 
pace should be made, 143; results 
of false pace, 147; pace in trials 
and in races, 148 
Paddock, The: contrast of big and little 
yearlings, in, 73 ; Lord George Ben- 
tinck’s custom, 72.; Sir Tatton 
Sykes’s excellent method in, 74 
Palmerston’s, Lord, removal of his stud 
from Danebury through influence of 
a servant, 215-16 
Palmistry, Purchase of, at Sledmere, 
133 
Parole, an instance of small horses 
best astwo-year-olds, 119; an example 
of trial asa yearling, 149 
Parr’s, Mr. T., system of stable manage- 
ment, and my objections to it, 19 
Partitions to boxes and stalls described, 5 
327 
Pavement of stalls, its material ad 
slope, 7 
Payment of training accounts: hardship 
of deferred payment, 216-19 ; d'ver-e 
instances, 216-18 ; bills and renewals, 
216 ; instances of liberality, 218-19 
Pedestrians, Condition of ( foot note), 57, 
Perseverance necessary to achieve fit- 
ness, anecdote of the late Mr. R. 
Stephenson, 107 
Pharsalus and the Metropolitan, Our 
commission on, 252-5 
Philipra, Mr. Dixon’s mistake with 
her condition, 50 
Poll-evil, caused by neglect, 32; its 
treatment, 2d. 
Popular notions, (See THE PUBLIC) 
Portland, Duke of : an incident at 
Welbeck Abbey, remuneration of 
jockeys in old times, 166; his objec- 
tion to short races, 206 
Practicable :eforms, (See REFORMS) 
Preakness, “© Big” condition of, at 
Epsom, 112 
Preparation : 75-112 ; past and present 
systems contrasted, 75-7; sweating 
no longer necessary, 74., my disuse of 
it, 76, its evils, 77; other practices 
happily abandoned, 2.; other con- 
trasts, 77-9; Mr. Lawrence on pre- 
paration, 78; alteration in bridles, 
26. ; Sir C. Bunbury’s method, 78; 
Mr. T. Oliver’s dictum 79; best 
season for, 79; early preparation 
advocated, 24. The process with the 
two-year-old, 79-82, discrimination 
of amount of exercise, 80, the 
proper hours, 81, morning preferred, 
20,, alternate rest and labour essential, 
82. The process with older horses, 
82-4, danger of overwork when 
unfit, $2, training for long and short 
courses, 83. The process with the 
yearling, 84, Mr. Scott, Mr. Forth, 
and Mr. John Day thereon, 74., my 
own and other methods, 26., clothing, 
i6., exercise in frost, 2b. Essential 
principles to be followed with horses 
of all ages, 84-6, should be timely, 
85, the final gallops to be watched, 
84-5, appetite, 85, examination of legs 
and feet, 85, precautions against cold, 
86, exercise in wet and fog, instance 
of its harmlessness, 2. Sunday 
labour not necessary, and why, 87-9 ; 
new theories, the Turkish bath, 
89-90 ; impossibility to satisfy all, 
