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But how is it that Mr. Jennings stands alone 

 amongst trainers in his ' peculiarity ' ? It would 

 appear as if he had thought the thing out for him- 

 self, and then had pluck enough to try it by experi- 

 ment ; he was evidently not a slave to routine and 

 fashion. Will he take this ' straight tip ' and lay 

 out a piece of hard road, and let some of his unshod 

 youngsters try their walking exercise upon it ? This 

 would just make his system complete and his horses' 

 feet perfect. 



The foot that is inured to hard roads can but be 

 perfected thereby, and a perfect foot can but stand 

 upon better terms with a racecourse, or a training- 

 ground, hard or soft as they may be at times. Qui 

 pent le plus peut le moins. 



In the Evening Standard of March 17, 1880, 

 we find the following paragraph : 



'It is a pity that nature and art should be so 

 often, as they are, in opposition to each other, and 

 that a theory of beauty which satisfies the demands of 

 one should outrage the demands of the other. It 

 was not natural that a girl's waist should be imme- 

 diately under her arms, yet in former times that 

 was considered indispensable to true grace. In 

 later years it was equally unnatural that waists 

 should be compressed to a painfully-small circum- 

 ference, but this again became a habit ; and there 

 exist others equally false and mischievous. Now 

 and then, however, nature asserts herself, and gives 

 a salutary hint that she is not to be maltreated with 

 impunity. This, it appears, was lately the case at 



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