THE TEMPER OF ANIMALS 323 
some of the best thoroughbreds are revengeful, 
quarrelsome, and liable to frightfully sudden fits of 
rage. No doubt this evil temper is often accompanied 
by splendid qualities of endurance. Chestnut horses, 
which have generally the most uncertain tempers, are 
perhaps the most high-couraged. But courage and 
temper are not always allied ; and temper and human 
management are not necessarily connected. “ Ben- 
digo ” and “ Surefoot ” were both trained in the 
“ Seven Barrows” stable by the late Mr. Jousiffe, who 
always avoided any severity of treatment, and never 
ran his horses “ light.” Each as a three-year-old won 
a great race, “ Bendigo ” the Cambridgeshire, “ Sure- 
foot ” the Two Thousand Guineas. Both carried off 
the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, worth ^10,000, later 
in their career. Yet “ Bendigo ” had a perfect 
temper, while “ Surefoot’s ” is well known to be 
ferocious. “ Bendigo ” would train himself, and how- 
ever well he ran in trials on the White Horse Hill, 
his trainer knew that he would do still better on the 
race-course. In his last race, when he was just beaten 
when carrying a crushing weight, Watts gave him 
one stroke of the whip. But the horse was doing all 
he could, and the jockey did not touch him again. 
In the stable, the big brown horse was almost as 
friendly with strangers as he was with his devoted 
attendant, “ Bendigo Pat,” and the writer has seen no 
prettier sight than that of his trainer’s little daughter 
hugging “ dear old c Bendy’s ’ ” nose. The horse had 
the courage and gentleness of a knight of romance. 
“ Surefoot,” on the other hand, under identical treat- 
