KNOWS THE SECRET!

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 8

KNOWS THE SECRET!

AN ANONYMOUS ADVISER

A \ioit to Tientliam this week found ronptci Million in one training camp. . An anon} nious lettci had been lecencd a few rlay-> picuoiibly suggesting, 'without ott(Mice," how a reitam nolouous hoise .it the centre should be trained. The adviu> «as without doubt pi offered'in nil ..'sincerity, but it had .i biibjcctne lepeiuisb.on Ui.it the wntei might haic senii.e)y an ticipaled When lioibes fail se^eial times in laces, pailiiulntlr aftei doing good tiack luak, tlieie u&ually follows a ready tiop of lay opinions about what should ' and what should not have been done. It is ou this scoio that many tiameis lose hoises just at a time when they may be discovering the seciet of the pioblem that has been confronting them. Kxpeueuce is general that when such horse= aie so changed about fiom hand to hand they perfoim no better Of course, there are the, eases of hoises beginning to win races alter a change oi quaiteis, but this is as often as not the result of other factqiß. When a hoi«e leaves a big ebtabhbhmcnt and goes> into stables wheie only one oi two hoises are being prepaied, for instance, it sometimes natuially leceivcs much moie peibonal eaie and responds to it. Such cases of notable cast-ofts from the bigger establishments can readily be called to mind. Or a liQifae may be placed to good advantage in a locality wheie racing is not so strong, and hence his winning form is a jnore apparent than leal improvement.. Sometimes the nnpiovement may be real, but this is the exceptional case, and it may not even then be due to any radical change m tiainmg methods. Incidentally, there is not much chance of the Trentham horse about whom the advice has been tendeied enjoying any immediate change of stables, nor probably would he benefit from any change. He is just one ; of. the rogues of the..game who ne\er leptodupe their light form on lace dajs. The history of the Turf bustles with such types, but patience occasionally is well rewarded'with them, so their connections pel severe in the hope that they may. also experience such a turn of luck. The advice contained in the letter had, except in one .particular, been tried with the' horse, whose, mode of training ha* been seveial times varied without results. The exceptional item of the; recommendation was. that the horse should, be given his final gallop ten days before a meeting. And the hoise in question is one of the grossest feeders at Trentham!