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SAME THING APPLIES IX AMERICA. The manner in which some trainers get up in the stirrups after a win or two is most amusing. but the fact remains that the proportion who turn out sufficient winners each year to cover expenses in connection with horses in th-ir charge is comparatively small. Cnfortunately some trainers run owners into needless expense by cither counselling or countenancing the starting of horses in races they have no chance of winning. The unexpected often happens i:i racing, but miracles do not. and they would have been necessary to have brought about the success of many horses I have seen competing in iniiiori.il!! events. "What on earth are you running it for?" is a question I have heard more than once pat to any owner of one of the "no chance" division, and the reply lias often been: "Well, to tell the truth. I cant see it has a possible chiiiee. but my trainer thinks it. has. lie says it has been galloping wonderfully well during the past fortnight." In training, as in everything else, luck is a gnat factor, bat some trainers and not little MM, either— require a much greater khure of it than others. — Pilot in Sydney Keferet.
