334 
the best method, 2.; value of dis- 
crimination of pace, 143; a good 
pace essential, 24.; when in doubt, 
try again, 142, 145 : disappointments 
on pace-made races accounted for, 
143; how pace should be meade, 20.; 
points to be noted, 144-51; trial- 
horse should be a known horse, 1443 
mistakes, and hintsthereon, 145. Il- 
lustrative trials, General Hesse and 
an Arab, 146, Crucifix and Iris, 
147, Nising Sun and Twilight, 7b. 
Mr. Copperthwaite’s system, 147., 
False pace and its results, 147 ; pace 
in trials and in races, 148 ; my suc- 
cesses in repeated trials, 2. The 
trial of yearlings, and instances, 149- 
51, early trials commended, 151. 
The trial of two-year-olds, and in- 
stances, 151-52; of older horses, 
152. Private trials and public form, 
152-4, uncertainty of the latter, and 
instances in proof of the former test, 
153-4, defeats accounted for, 155 ; 
horses not always well, 26.; special 
cases considered, Lady Llizubeth, 
Gamos, and others, 156-9 
Turf, The. (See RAcING and ATTACKS 
ON THE TURF) 
Turkish bath, The ; tendency to accept 
new theories, 89-90 
Twitght, her illustrative trial with 
Rising Sun, 147 
Two Thousand, the, Our commission 
on Promised Land for, 252-3 
Two-year-old, The: his preparation 
described, 79-82, the proper hours, 
81, necessity to discriminate amount 
of work, 80; instances of in-and-out 
running at two- and three-year-old, 
IoI ; hints on purchasing (see Pur- 
CHASING); small horses generally 
show best as, and instance, 119 ; best 
method of trial, and instances, 151-2 
UNSOUND horses best sold, 1163 rare 
exceptions, 26. 
Usury : its evils, 241, a chief cause of 
racing losses, 243; special instance, 
“* £2,000 for a box of cigars,” 244 
VALUE of stakes in 1750 and now con- 
trasted, 235-6; table of the latter, 
236 
Valuers diverse running with a boy 
and with a man up, 168 
Van, The first railway, 118 
Venison, an instance of a good small 
INDEX. 
horse, 118 ; and of a yearling rejected 
as under-sized, 126 . 
Ventilation: 9-14; windows and air- 
holes of the stable, 6 ; practice in old 
days, 9; effect of stifling stables on 
human beings, 10; attractive result 
of exclusion of air, 10; Drs, Burns 
and Southwood on, 11, other argu- 
ments, 12; experiment in proof of 
evil of stifling stables, 13; tempta- 
tions and direful result, 24.; extremes 
inadvisable, 26.; clothing preferable 
to exclusion of air, 24. ; light equally 
necessary, 14; necessity of fresh air 
in sickness, 37 
Vespasian, an example of a thorough- 
bred carrying weight, 195 ; contrasted 
as a modern horse with Bay Midale- 
ton, 227 
Vex, an instance of a horse fit when 
“‘lizht,” 98 
Virago, fit when rough, 44; an instance 
of doubtful legs standing prepara- 
tion, I15 
Viridis, Mr. Starkey’s purchase of, an 
example of a reasonably priced year- 
ling, 127; his disappointment in the 
ca e of declaration to win with Land 
Tux, 170 
Vo'tigeur, an example of a thorough- 
bred carrying weight, 195 
Watts, Prince of, H.R.H. the, Good 
example set by, in welter-racing, 207 
Wapiti, an instance of doubtful legs 
standing preparation, 115 
Warbles, Treatment of 31 
Warranty : observations on, 120-2; sale 
of Oxonian and other curious in- 
stances, 120-1 ; chronic lameness of 
horses in strong work and instance, 
121-2 
Wasting by jockeys in old days, 166-7 ; 
not injurious, 307 
Water: supply of, to stable, 7; its 
qualities, 26-7; Mr. Clark thereon, 
26, ; rain water in tanks preferred, and 
aes 76.3; prevention of gripmng, 
1 
Waterloo Cup and ‘‘ Draw,” Betting 
on the, and inferences for im- 
provement of turf, 260-6; the one 
disappointment—‘‘ Coomassie” fore- 
stalled, 267 
Weatherbouna’s running as a two- and 
as a three-year-old, 101 
Wathergage, Admiral Rous’s failure 
with, 188 
