396 LIFE WITH THE TEOTTEKS. 



there was not some place where you could have improved 

 the training or driving of him. In driving against other 

 people, study their methods and plans as much as possible. 

 I do not wish to be understood as advising you to imitate 

 them at all times. "What I mean is, to learn all you can by 

 close observation, pick out what you consider the best 

 points, and use them to make a trade-mark for yourself. 

 If you expect to shine in the profession to any great extent, 

 you will have to have methods that are recognised as purely 

 your own. In Mace's style of driving, people often thought 

 that his success was not the result of well-laid plans, but 

 a sort of inspiration of the moment as it were. Such, I am 

 sure, was not the case. While he had all the brilliancy and 

 dash of what would be termed in army circles a "raider," 

 he also apjireciated the advantage obtained by having cor- 

 rect information as to the strength of the enemy, and a plan 

 of battle to attack him from. At the last critical moment 

 when a little thing would decide the battle, Mace would 

 come with a wild rush that loqked as though it did not con- 

 tain much in its elements in the way of plans. This was 

 only the finish of his plan of attack, as I have had proven 

 to me without a doubt. He has often told me in talking 

 over some coming event, just what he would do, where he 

 would make his drive, and what the result would be. The 

 best driver in the world, with his nicely laid plans may make 

 mistakes. But the driver who is the best lawyer and does 

 everything after a plan, looks after the details the closest, 

 and is naturally a reinsman, will with the same quality of 

 horses obtain better results than any driver can who goes 

 about it in a haphazard manner. In my younger days I 

 made the acquaintance of William Hay ward, the celebrated 

 jockey, and in him was demonstrated the correctness of this 

 rule more than any man I ever saw. I have seen him ride 

 all-distance races and that he rode them extremely well has 

 been proven over and over again without any doubt. His 

 judgment of pace is something wonderful. If he was to 

 ride a horse a mile, he could tell you before he started how 



