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in strong evidence next season with 

 him and Alfred, who could win all over 

 with his fair owner for a pilot, but not 

 so with the stable lad up. I expect the 

 latter's hands are too heavy. Ladies 

 generally have good hands, and horses 

 rarely pull at them. 



Alfred won ;^500 show-jumping last 

 year, and ^505 the year previous ; then 

 one hears people say, '*0h, but my 

 horse is too good for show-jumping!" 

 They are not good enough, they mean. 

 Eight hundred guineas were refused for 

 Alfred two years ago. You might take 

 Tom Firr's stud when in condition, and 

 there would not be a solitary one make 

 a clean round in a show-ring without 

 schooling. 



Funny enough, they give the most 

 money for show-jumping all about the 

 Potteries district. There is ^100 to be 



