INDEX. 
Weight-for-age races, Curious belief in 
special preparation for, 54-5 
Weights and Distances : 193-208 ; evils 
of light-weight scale, 193-4; 
power of the racehorse to carry 
weight shown from instances of 
hunters and racehorses, 194-5, 
Squire Osbaldeston’s performance, 
2., Admiral Kous’s opinion and its 
contrariety, 196, the trainers’ view, 
197. ‘Table of the light- and heavy- 
weight handicaps and the lesson it 
teaches, popularity of welter-races, 
197-8; Lord Derby’s objections to 
Lord Redesdale’s bill, examined and 
fallacy shown, 199, Mr. Scott’s 
advocacy of it, 26.; advantages of 
higher standard and press opinions, 
200; rarity of success of children as 
jockeys, and evils of the system, and 
instances, 200-2; action of the 
Jockey Club and its further powers, 
201. Long and short courses: ad- 
vantages of the former, 202, evils of 
the latter, 203. Table of handicaps 
at Goodwood and Newmarket show- 
ing preponderance of boy-jockeys, 
203-4, no dearth of good jockeys 
shown, 204, injustice of the system 
to men, 204-5, petition to Jockey 
Club suggested, 206 ; popular liking 
for welter-races, 206, good example 
of the Prince of Wales, 207. Official 
table for Queen’s Plates, 207; sug- 
gested table for shorter races, 208 
Welbeck Abbey, An incident at, 166 
Welsher’s, The, extermination possible 
through institution of outer ring, 
282- 
Welter-races and Weights: ability of 
the thoroughbred to carry a weight 
instanced from hunting and racing, 
193-5; popularity of welter-races, 
198, reason for this, 206; trainer’s 
advocacy of, 197, 199; advantages 
of a higher standard, 200-1; good 
example set by the Prince of Wales, 
207. 
West Australian, fit when rough, 44; 
and when ‘‘light,” 92 
Wet ground, Lffects of running on, 
176-8 
Wet weather, Exercise in, 86 ; instance 
of its harmlessness, 24. 
Witd Dayrell, an instance of a large 
horse improving with age, 119° 
Windows and air-holes to stables, 6 
335 
Winter : hours of feeding and exercise 
in, 16; clothing, 18; separate train- 
ing ground for, 61 
Woudyates : value of seclusion shown 
at, in betting on Chester Cup, 
Starter and Our Mary Ann, 643 
successes of my stable in past times, 
list of stakes won, 98-9, idem of 
winners, 100, idem of horses sold and 
prices, and their subsequent perform- 
ances, IOI 
Work : hours of exercise in winter, 16, 
in summer, 17-8 ; the cause of swollen 
joints, etc., 36; a necessity of condi- 
tion, 50; discrimination of, nece:sary 
in preparation, 80 ; proper hours for, 
81; alternate rest and work essential, 
82; danger of excess when unfit, 2d. ; 
exercise in frost, 84; exercise in wet 
and fog, 86; Sunday labour not 
necessary, 87-9; severe preparation 
uot necessarily harmful, and instance, 
97, work done in old times, 98; 
abuse of severe preparation, horses 
run too often, 100; cases of doubt- 
ful legs standing severe preparation, 
and vice vers, 114-6 ; chronic lame- 
ness of horses in strong work, and 
instance, 121-2 
Yarp, The, described, 8 
Yearling, The : horses runas yearlings, 
69, 11g, the best time to break, 
69-71, examples of horses so broke 
lasting, 70-1 ; big and little yearlings 
in the paddock, their promise and 
performances contrasted, 73, Lord 
George Bentinck’s custom with, 2d., 
Sir Tatton Sykes’s treatment of, 
described and commended, 74, his 
successes with, 131-3. Preparation 
described, 84, Mr. Forth’s, Mr. 
Scott’s, and Mr. John Day’s usage 
of, 84, my own system, 74. ; cloth- 
ing, 26., exercise in frost, 24. Hints 
on purchasing (see THE PURCHASE 
OF YEARLINGS) ; small horses gener- 
ally better as, 119, instances of under- 
sized yearlings rejected, 126; pro- 
gress of fat and light yearlings con- 
trasted, 129-30. Hints on engage 
ments of, 136-9; how yearlings 
should be tried, and instances, 149- 
151 ; their running in public, 150 
Yearling race, First, at Shrewsbury, 
69, 119 
