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These hints will be useful to a man who is con- 

 scious of his own deficiency; but there are other 

 suggestions that are valuable even to those who 

 have no reason to distrust their horsemanship. 



There are not many men who are acquainted 

 with their own weight with any degree of accu- 

 racy ; yet the importance of even a few pounds 

 more or less upon the back of a horse, will be felt 

 immediately by observing the consequence attached 

 to it on the turf; the difference of four pounds 

 extra weight will always be found materially to 

 affect the betting upon a horse. It is scarcely 

 necessary to remind the reader that his riding 

 weight is always calculated at a stone above 

 his actual weight; that allowance being usually 

 made for the saddle and bridle. Perhaps there is 



