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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 Ib. 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 greatly impressed 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 ; for 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. 



Nothing is more calculated to make a horse a rogue than 

 running him a severe race when he is out of condition. 



RIDING PULLERS. 



Although a curb is objectionable from its tendency to 

 make a horse go " round " and high ; still, if a jockey cannot 

 hold a 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 stand- 

 still, or to be obliged to saw his mouth or pull his head 

 about, so as to keep him in his place. Speaking to and 

 humouring a horse a little will often make him stop pulling. 



