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ecutes a difficult turn, he is not only close to the post, 

 but he is immediately ready, without risk or difficulty, 

 to make a run from it, should his horse be challenged 

 there for running by any of the party. But if the boy 

 attempts to turn immediately at the post, he must lay 

 some way out of his ground in doing it, to make a 

 difficult turn in this manner ; the consequence of which 

 in a race would be, that an experienced jockey, well 

 placed, running with him, and having made this turn well 

 previously to his coming to the post, would not only 

 have the opportunity of running for the turn, but in 

 doing it, he would, if he chose, oblige the boy to lay 

 very much out of his ground. The experienced jockey 

 would then take a pull to set his horse a-going, would 

 slip the boy several lengths, and would thereby most 

 likely win the race ; for as I have before observed, a 

 length gained here may be worth five or six in 

 straight running, if the proper advantage be taken 

 of it. 



I will just now state the advantages which may, 

 and often have been taken by experienced jockeys ; 

 and which advantage the groom is very likely to ex- 

 plain to a good riding boy, and more particularly if he 

 knows he shall shortly have occasion to put him up to 

 ride a race over a round course. 



The groom therefore takes an opportunity, and 

 quietly talks to the boy of what may happen in the 

 running. If a horse bolts, or lays a long way out of 

 his ground, the groom says, — " If he is a good horse, 

 and it is heats that you are running, the best way. 



