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are to have him. This, of course, has reference to horses 

 that run away from willfulness, and not under the sudden 

 impulse of fright. As you have now finished your morn- 

 ing's work I will leave you, and I do not think it will be 

 necessary for me to come again, until the time fixed for 

 the trials. If there is anything you want to know, that I 

 have omitted in my directions, you can subject me to any 

 queries you see fit. 



PUPIL. The bump of self-esteem must be a prominent 

 elevation on my head, as I feel very capable of carrying 

 the horses along. The success I have had, so far, I do not 

 ascribe to fortuitous circumstances, but to the result of 

 your teachings, as I should have been sadly at a loss to 

 know what to do in several instances. Your directions 

 have been so minute, that my memory and comprehension 

 would have to be very poor, if they did not serve to guide 

 me for the time you will be gone. I can assure you that 

 I will not fall into the same error again I did with Never 

 Mind, in either mistaking overwork for rankness, or in 

 twitching him on to his quarters. To fit the horses for 

 the races in four weeks, it will be necessary that their 

 work should gradually approach that which it will be in the 

 race, and with all my assurance, I am not so certain that 

 I will be able to hit the happy medium, and give them 

 neither too little nor too much work. 



PRECEPTOR. You had better keep on the safe side, and 

 have the work rather under what you consider the full 

 amount they can bear with advantage. While there has 

 to be plenty of work given to bring a horse into condition, 

 an over-supply is worse than not having him quite up to 

 the mark in opening a campaign. In fact, I prefer that 

 a horse should not be in the form of doing all he is capable 

 of in his first races, but in that condition that will be 

 benefited by the work he gets in them, and so keep up a 

 steady rate of improvement, uncil the season is at an end. 



