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in a variety of ways, with great inconvenience 

 if not considerable losses of money. 



Lastly, we further advise gentlemen of the 

 turf not to be too fond of giving their own orders 

 to their jockeys, as to how they wish them to 

 ride their horses in their different engagements, 

 unless they are very good judges. A gentleman 

 having a horse going to run for a small stake, 

 as a fifty pound plate, and choosing to give his 

 own orders, on such an occasion as this, his 

 making his own arrangements with his jockey 

 is not of much importance — the orders given 

 by the owner may be proper enough, but by 

 chance they may be wrong. In racing it will 

 not do to trust much to chance; it is true, 

 chance may give a lucky hit now and then ; but 

 where a horse is deeply engaged, as having to 

 run in any of the great stakes we have men- 

 tioned, the most likely way to win the game 

 in the end will be to trust to the cool, patient 

 consideration and practical experienced know- 

 ledge of the trainer, who has had the feeding 

 and the working of the horse that may be 

 engaged to run, and knows what the lengths 

 were, and at what pace the horse was capable 

 of coming in those lengths; and he also knows 



