THE GHOST. 



pressed with this fact on seeing the running of The 

 Ghost, in The Clewer Welter, at the Windsor July 

 Meeting for 1877. This arrant thief, who was a non- 

 stayer, ran a dead heat, Custance up, in the race in 

 question, with Mr. Gretton's Dovedale, steered by 

 Cannon. I knew the mare could stay a bit, so backed 

 her in the deciding heat, and lost my money, as The 

 Ghost won cleverly. Although the second journey was 

 all against him, he ran quite a different horse to what 

 he did the first time of asking. 



One may try the effect of giving a rogue, a quarter 

 of an hour before his race, half a bottle (not more) of 

 port or sherry in order to make him run kindly. Though 

 horses can take, comparatively, enormous quantities of 

 certain drugs with impunity, still they cannot drink much 

 more than twice the amount that an ordinary man can, 

 without becoming intoxicated. 



On Riding Pullers. — Although a curb is objectionable 

 from its tendency to make a horse go " round " and 

 high, still, if the jockey cannot hold the horse in any 

 kind of snaffle, it is better for him to use a curb, taking 

 care to put it low down in his mouth, than to take the 

 chance of his running himself to a standstill, or to be 

 obliged to saw his mouth or pull his head about, so as 



