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may depend upon it that he will not be much use 

 upon a racecourse ; but, if an animal be known to 

 have improved by the boys — and they can easily 

 tell this when they are galloping the horses at 

 exercise — we look out for that horse, and, if he be 

 tried and his trial be satisfactory, if he has had a 

 good preparation and some good winding up 

 gallops, we know that he is sure to be "expected." 

 I have been employed at Newmarket, where, in 

 addition to writing to the papers myseli, and sending 

 special information to backers and layers, I also 

 worked for a man who did a lot of stuff for vari- 

 ous journals. He, as did other correspondents, 

 employed several men to give him information 

 about the various trainers' horses, and all this was 

 collected by him and sent away. It is no joke 

 to tout the work done by the horses at Newmarket, 

 and it would be impossible for one or for two or 

 three men to do this, particularly as it is necessary 

 to get the names of the horses that are likely to 

 be despatched to run at meetings ; also to watch 

 carefully the gallops of the prominent horses entered 

 for the big handicaps. Men in the various stables 

 generally furnish us with the likely runners for the 

 coming meetings, and we also watch them as they 

 are sent away from the stations. There are, as 

 already mentioned, men at Newmarket who write 



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