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of rushing off her feet in a hundred yards, will go the 

 whole length of the stretch without breaking. I have 

 prepared Falcon for his sweat to-morrow, and intend that 

 Jane and Never Mind shall go through the same opera- 

 tion the day after. Clipper is doing very finely; there has 

 been no heat in his legs, and less swelling than when I 

 commenced driving him. May's action has undergone a 

 change that I did not look for, having lengthened her 

 stride, and she goes sweeping through the stretch a good 

 deal like her sire. Oriole I have confined to very short 

 brushes every other day, when I have let her spirt off for a 

 hundred or two yards. She showed no symptoms of hitch- 

 ing, One of the little boys has ridden Mavourneen along- 

 side of me when I have been driving, and she seems bet- 

 ter suited to the saddle than the harness. They are all 

 eating well. Not one of them but is anxious for the feed- 

 ing hour to come, and as it approaches, are all agog for 

 their rations. Jane works as kindly as when you saw her. 

 Once she appeared a little fidgetty, when I turned her 

 round, going the reverse way of the track, and she be- 

 came as sedate as I wanted. Should she continue as 

 docile when sweating, I do not think we will have any 

 further trouble with her. 



PRECEPTOR. A very good report, only that you should 

 not have speeded Delle every day. Twice a week, three- 

 times at the outside, is enough for a horse to go at speed, 

 and then the distance should be short. The instructions I 

 gave you about driving the colts were not meant to embrace 

 her; as her rate of going, when at her best speed, is fast 

 enough to work injury if driven every day. 



PUPIL. In saying that I drove her fast every day up 

 and down the stretches, I did not mean that I sent her at 

 her best rate, and only when she wore the rattles did I 

 suffer her to approach it. 



PRECEPTOR. That is better. When the rattles are on, it 



