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TRIGGS SENSIBLE VIEW OF HORSES. "Charlie" Trigg as ■ Jockey is. of course, known all over England, but Charles Trigg as a writer is an unlviiowu quantity at present. Be is, how v.-r. II I II leg his li.iT career for the Weekly Disputeh. whi.-h sbooM aaake lateieatug reading. At the beginning of his ractog career, he says, he tised to bad the field whenever he could, until it dawned on In in . ;is it does on all riders sooner or later, that in many instanees this was precisely what not to do. Sometimes be won by this method, but more often be ran unplaced. And so skill came to him with experience. Trigg was asked what was the greatest horse he ever lod.-. Without m moments hesitation he re plied: "Pretty Polly. I waa the fust to ride Prettj Poll] in public. Loin- only :i hoy then. 1 think she won that race by about a fartoag. Her action was magnificent. I bad oaly to sit there and let her go. She may not have been as good a mure as Sceptre. 1 suppose she wasnt. Hal 1 never wish to ride a better. Perhaps I am fondest, realh fondest, at Roaedrop, 1 sroa the laks with her last year, and podttvelj grew to like Iter, she has sack a nice and pal but temper, ami responded so well to everything I asked her to do. Mil. 1 yOB, BOrses are Jaal like human beings. Some are amiable and some are disagreeable, Scale and obethaate. The public looking on from the stands at a race, with their n.ouev staked on tbe boraea, little Imagine the tan talising experiences Jockeys sometimes pass through, while those who an backing them say anything but Complimentary things about their riding. Aay Jackej will tell you thai you may start off on ; race with Hie rietion that your horse is going to win. anil then all Of a BOdden the animal cracks up. and nothing bat you can do will bring him on again, though you try every device kaowa to eood horse manship. On other occasions a horse will absolutely astaedsb yoa by his golag. He may he a tea to one or a twenty to one chance. Von may have ridden him many limes before in the rear of the field. This time lie simply takes it into his bead t" win. and nothing will stop him from doing BO. Horses, like liien. have moods. One day they fed tit. another day they are oil color. This is true of all horses, but the best horse is the borse that OftCBCSl fed-tit. provided, of coarse, he lias MM the aeceaaarj qualities of speed or stamina. -Loudon Sporting Life.
