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confidential groom that his horses are well turned 

 out, and well looked after. Following the sug- 

 gestions just referred to, he should insist on the 

 best management possible in his 

 own stable, and he must know, 

 and not merely think, that if the 

 general appearance of a horse 

 is unsatisfactory, something is 

 wrong, and that wrong must be 

 righted and the horse brought 

 up to look first-rate. Aim at 

 perfection, and, if you do not 

 quite attain it, at least you will 

 o-et far better results than the 

 average person does, for good luck is good manage- 

 ment, as a general rule, in or out of a stable. 



Thousands of miserable-looking, half-worthless 

 horses you come across every year, and fresh 



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ones, equally worthless, are bred to take their 

 place when their predecessors die of old age or 

 are shot. They are only fit for the kennels, and 

 often have hardly enough meat on for that destina- 



