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as quiet as a lamb, thereby giving them to know, as plain 

 as words could have told, what her ideas on spurring were. 

 During her future career she never had spurs used with her, 

 and always ran kindly and gamely. Apologue, the five-year- 

 old New Zealand horse which won the Melbourne Cup of 

 1908 by three-quarters of a length, was not touched by Evans, 

 his jockey, with either whip or spur. Apologue, the first New 

 Zealand horse which has won this classic event, was sired by 

 the imported Phcebus Apollo, a son of St. Simon. It is to be 

 hoped that such splendid examples of patience and judgment 

 as that displayed by the Australian jockey on this occasion 

 will prove of benefit to others, and especially to those whose 

 bad temper is shewn by disgraceful exhibitions of whipping 

 and spurring their mounts, even when they find they have no 

 earthly chance of winning ; sights that are, unfortunately, 

 only too common on race-courses. 



Many sensible trainers do not allow spurs to be used 

 with their mares when running. 



USE OF THE WHIP. 



When hands and spurs fail to make a horse go fast enough 

 to win his race, we may use the whip if it be a very " near 

 thing," to squeeze the last ounce out of our mount. Horses, 

 when ridden by a workman, will undoubtedly, under the whip, 

 make a last effort which cannot be obtained by any other 

 means of punishment. This effort, speaking in general terms, 

 may make a difference of a length, perhaps even of two 

 lengths, in some rare cases. Recollecting the risk we run of 

 spoiling a horse's temper for the rest of his life by flogging 

 him, we may take for granted that we should not use the 

 whip if we have to trust to it to make up more than two 

 lengths to secure the judge's verdict. A horse, as Edwin 

 Martin, the well-known Newmarket trainer, once remarked to 

 me, cannot at the end of a race go farther than a hundred 



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