48 PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



Be it further known to the reader, that when 

 a horse is engaged to run in a race of a certain 

 length, as, for example, two or four miles, which- 

 ever of these lengths he may have to run, he must 

 occasionally, and at a good telling pace, go a 

 little longer length in the concluding of his work 

 than he has to do in his race; and this when it 

 takes place is called " getting the length he has 

 to run into him ;" and unless this part of his train- 

 ing is well arranged, the horse cannot win his 

 engagement, although he may be the best horse 

 in the party in which he may have to run; and 

 what is more, he may appear to the eye to be in 

 very fine condition, and most likely he is so for 

 the running of a short length, but certainly not for 

 the running of a long one. The reader is there- 

 fore to bear in mind, that unless his horse is well 

 trained, according to the length he has to run, 

 however good he may be, he will not only be beat 

 by the company he may be running in, but that 

 company need not be of the most choice de- 

 scription to do so; in other words, he will often 

 be beat by bad horses, unless he is in the care of 

 an honest good training groom. Indeed, from 

 any casual circumstance, as if a strong horse miss 

 a sweat or two, and it should be near the time 

 of his coming to post, it would most likely be the 



