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out dipping into the lotteries, which, by-the-bye, usually 

 fill well on a " lep race." 



One or two good second class Walers, which can stay 

 up to a mile and a half, a couple of Arabs especially 

 if one or both be galloways, and are at the same time 

 good enough to run among the big ones like what 

 Chieftain, Caliph, and Abdool Rayman were a fast 

 13-2 Arab, or 13-hand country-bred pony, a half miler 

 for selling races, and a good chaser would form the 

 beau ideal of an useful stable for up-country meetings. 



A good maiden is a real Eldorado, whether Waler, 

 Arab, or chaser ; but they are particularly hard to get, 

 and uncertain to back, unless one has first-rate trying 

 tackle with which to test their powers. I may here 

 remark that maidens in India take, to some extent, the 

 place which two and three year olds occupy in England, 

 for many of the most important races are confined to 

 horses that have never won during any previous season, 

 irrespective of their age, though, of course, allowance 

 of weight for it is always given. 



Though Arabs and country-breds get three and two 

 stone respectively from Walers for class allowance, this 

 difference does not bring the best of them together with 

 even second rate Colonials. 



In late years, except Echo and Merryman, we have 

 had no Cape horses that could hold their own against 

 Walers, while the C. T. C. scale of weights, by which they 

 get an allowance of a stone from the latter, show 

 clearly how cheaply their powers are held among racing 

 men. 



There is a sort of fatality about English horses in 



