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" There are men both good and wise who hold that in a future state 



Dumb creatures we have cherished here below 

 Shall give us joyous greeting when we pass the Golden Gate j 



Is it folly that I hope it may be so ? 

 For never man had friend more enduring to the end, 



Truer mate in every turn of time and tide. 

 Could I think we'd meet again it would lighten half my pain 



At the place where the old horse died.") 



This knotty problem of ethical mysticism, however, 

 scarcely comes within the range of this work, but to 

 draw the metaphorical parallel, it is very rarely — 

 almost never — that fleetness and staying" powers are 

 combined in the same horse to any marked degree. 

 If a horse is extraordinarily fast he will not be able 

 to stay very loiig, and vice versa. It is therefore 

 necessary for owners of large racing studs to keep two 

 classes of horses, or even three, if steeplechasing is 

 included in the catalogue of their engagements. The 

 one class must be fleet for short races, where horses 

 are ridden at full speed from start to post ; and the 

 other class of horses must be good stayers, so that 

 they may live to the end of long races. 



REQUIREMENTS FOR DIFFERENT RACES. 



Of course we are writing of the higher-class events, 

 for there are numerous race-meetings all over the 

 country where any medium horse — or even a proper 

 "screw" — is qualified to run and win, but in fashion- 

 able events like "The Derby," "The Two Thousand 

 Guinea Stakes," "The Cambridgeshire," and "The 

 Grand National," horses of entirely different stamp 



