Trainers Who Are Trainers.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7826, 28 September 1903, Page 2

Trainers Who Are Trainers.

Mason, Mr G. G. Btead's trainer, comes in for a good deal of commends* r tion from the Australian writers. " When on a horse subject, Mason is most intelligent," says the Sydney Mail, "and his judgment of the points of a racehorse cannot be surpassed. He uses the lightest of working shoes and light-. weights on his horses' backs in training. He does not train horses with a view of getting the best of the bookmakers or the public, for neither he nor Mr Stead are betting men, nor are .they, given., to*,. ,the ' bottling up' tactic. Where? they - come from the prizes are liberal enough to make the game pay without recourse to the bookmakers. Therefore it does not matter a jot to Mason or his - employer whether the horses break records on the tracks or not. They aro lightly r y shod and lightly weighted in order to J give them freedom of action and: teach ••■-,? them to stride out. By getting v near , to Nature as possible Mason owes many - of his successes, while the lover of ■■- 'coups,' who shoes with veritable dumbbells and gallops his horses in lead saddles, seldom brings off a coup or anything else. Mason is a clever trainer, but he is not' clever' in the sense of the term as applied to those people who r ar» up to all the hoodwinking wiles known to the profession, but who seldom deceive anybody except themselves and a few ardent admirers in betting circles. The trainer who is ' clever in the second sense, according to the-; betting man's standard of cleverness, in nine ouea out of ten finds himself taking 2;to '$ about a 10 to 1 chance. Joe Burton is another trainer who does not allow betting considerations to interfere with his mode of training a horse. It is aCyjSry Ourious : fact in connection! with the -Derby thai* Burton,* who brought Belah to the, post in such superb condition, first came into notice as a trainer in 1871 :by winning ; the Derby under I circumstances very similar to those which surrounded last ■•;/ Saturday's race. In 1871 Burton, then a mere stripling, was entrusted with the" ?" r; important task of preparing Javelin? the v: j hope of the Bathurst district, and the- - Lee family in particular, fortheDetbyi which he Succeeded in carrying ofF from * the best talent of Bandwiok and Fiem* ington and won reputation in a day."