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SMALL VALUE OF TIPS FROM TRAINERS. Some people who go racing have a rather exaggerated idea of the value of trainers opinions, and fancy they are on the royal road to wealth when they get a tip from one of this division. Tills idea is not shared by some owners of lengthy experience, one of whom I heard disgustedly remark the other day: "Most trainers opinions would break a bank. I have been in the game a long time, and it seems to me only an accident with most when their ideas occasionally work out correctly. It is simply incomprehensible how some men ever attained prominence in the calling. To my mind, they are shining examples of sheer luck." The speaker, for some reason or other, may have been in a rather bitter mood when he delivered himself this way, but, none tho less, it would be interesting to know how many, and how often, Australian trainers with big teams have during the past dozen years won sufficient . in stakes to go near covering the lannunl cost of horses in their stables. However, hobbies of any kind are rather costly, and anyone going in for racing as ail owner must be prepared to risk something. Pilot iu Sydney Referee.
