no RACE RIDING. 



correct, there was nothing beyond my reach for that year, 

 not even the Derby, as the horses were carrying boys of 

 the same weight, while my old horses, which had won 

 good races before this (and, I may add, since), would 

 have made small work of three-year-olds at even weights. 

 I believed I had a treasure, but to make assurance 

 doubly sure, I determined to try them regularly, with 

 jockeys in boots and breeches, and as close an imitation 

 of the real thing as I could devise. Alas for the result ! 

 The young horse was beaten two hundred yards ! He 

 could not be got to gallop in public, although he was 

 a perfect kill-devil at exercise. 



*' I gave him another chance in a good class race with 

 an 8 St. 10 lbs. man on his back. The brute led his field to 

 the distance, and looked like coming in alone. Directly 

 the shouting commenced, and he could see the crowd, 

 he shut up like a clasp-knife, and was shortly after 

 relegated to the cab-rank, in which I hope he will long 

 live to expiate the sin of the unfulfilled promise of his 

 youth." 



If a jady horse manages to run a dead heat in a race 

 for which there are several starters, the chances are in 

 favour of his winning the deciding heat, supposing that 

 he has not had much punishment. I was much im- 



