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up as favourites, or what others may have gone 

 down in the odds, by being made outsiders. Of 

 those matters, the owner may form some idea 

 from the private trials and public running of the 

 horses in his own stable ; that is, if the people of 

 his stable know well what they are about, and 

 that they are strictly honest to him; he can also 

 judge a little from the public running of other 

 horses in such races as his own horses have 

 been engaged to run, where they have, in 

 getting near home, come to a pretty close finish 

 on passing the winning-post. Sixthly, he must 

 be careful how he backs his fancy, or takes 

 the odds out of his own stable. As racing 

 matters are so very differently managed now 

 to what they were formerly, he cannot be too 

 cautious how he places confidence in the opinion 

 of others, which may be given him unasked; he 

 should be very careful in acting on such informa- 

 tion, at lea"st in such of the great stakes as are 

 made play or pay, as it is generally the case that 

 stakes thus made make the betting P. P. Under 

 the above circumstances, the old way of betting 

 round is the safe game to play, by beginning 

 early in all great stakes, as the Derby, the Oaks, 

 the St. Leger, and many other similar ones, as 

 some of those at Newmarket, and a few others at 



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