four o'clock on summer mornings
`` Rum places , racing stables , '' he went on , meditatively ; `` and a lot of rum things go on in 'em , one way and another , as you 'll come to know . And it ai n't the easiest thing going , I tell you , to keep your hands clean . Ungrateful business a trainer 's , Sir Richard -- wearing business -- shortens a man 's temper and makes him old before his time . Out by four o'clock on summer mornings , minding your cattle and keeping your eye on those shirking blackguards of boys . No real rest , sir , day or night . Wearing business -- studying all the meetings and entering your horses where you 've reason to reckon they 've most chance . And if your horse wins , the jockey gets all the praise and the petting .