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ing his eye on the tackle, advising you when the 

 granary is low and more stock is required, and 

 drawing your attention to numberless little things 

 that may have escaped your notice. 



That you will very often be wrong in your 

 estimate of the young horses sent to your stable 

 is inevitable. Some, you will soon perceive, are 

 really hopeless, and on the other hand others 

 with whom you are at first inclined to be greatly 

 pleased are tolerably certain to turn out costly 

 failures, as their breeding and appearance will 

 naturally have suggested that they should be 

 heavily engaged. Others, again, grow, improve, 

 and develop in a wonderful way. I once had 

 two really superb chestnut colts that were the 

 delight of all beholders, and a smaller bay of the 

 same age that few people looked at a second 

 time. For the chestnuts brilliant careers were 

 confidently anticipated, for when I came to get 

 at them I found that they had speed and action 

 as well as good looks. When they were roughly 

 jumped ofF now and then the little bay stuck to 

 them in a way which surprised me, though I 

 attributed it to the circumstance that he was 

 rather more forward in condition ; but in time 

 I tried them, setting the two to give him I2lb. 

 He beat them so very easily that I tried a little 



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