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which he lost by standing still, no matter how many men 

 were trying to keep the circulation to the extremities by 

 hand-rubbing. The next heat was a repetition of the 

 second, when he was very properly withdrawn, and an- 

 other instance added to the many of the " glorious uncer- 

 tainties of racing." His rider told me that the horse was 

 well, that he was eating his daily allowance with a good 

 appetite, and that he could not account for his defeat in 

 any other manner than that the cinders worried him so 

 that he would not trot. 



PRECEPTOK. It is hard to determine what the trouble 

 was, if internal disturbance was not the cause, which 

 the sweating would have relieved. We will now go to 

 dinner, resuming our conversation when that has been 

 discussed. 



