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one. But if you gradually, patiently, and kindly teach 

 him exactly what you expect of him, he will not 

 be long in learning. The beautifully broken English 

 hacks I have already spoken of, broken to the minute, 

 and most of them high-school horses, were ex-race- 

 horses. 



In conclusion I cannot do better than quote Cap- 

 tain E. B. Cassatt, in the Rasp, of 1914, who says: 

 "Your ex-race-horse will be quick to learn anything 

 you teach him properly; he will never forget it; he 

 will walk his four miles, trot his eight miles, and 

 canter like a rocking-chair at any pace you please, 

 from four to fifteen miles an hour; he will carry his 

 head and neck just where you want it; he will not pull 

 you; he will beat your best girl's saddler a quarter of 

 a mile to ten miles and be fresher than any other horse 

 at the end of it ; he will stop for you at any part of the 

 race and start eating grass at the side of the road; 

 and on a long, man-wearing ride of a hundred or more 

 miles, he will give you no notice of how tired he is 

 until he rolls into the ditch, dead." 



