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horses should be clearly pointed out to the 

 trainer, what they beat, or what beat them ; 

 whether they gave or received weight according 

 to their different years ; and at what weights 

 and lengths they can best come, and what was 

 the state of the ground at the time. Of course, 

 the different engagements of horses and the time 

 of their coming to post, the weights and the 

 horses they are to meet, are accurately noted 

 in the Calendar. A trainer possessing the above 

 information respecting the different horses in 

 his stable, together with what he ascertains in 

 training them, as also by his constant reference 

 to the Calendar for a thorough knowledge of the 

 rules or laws of the Jockey Club and for the 

 public running of the various horses, will have 

 a tolerable good idea of what chance (barring 

 an accident) the horses he may have to bring to 

 post have of winning. 



Having now made my preparatory remarks 

 relative to the horses coming to the home stables 

 to winter, let us now consider them as having 

 arrived there, as they usually do at different pe- 

 riods, as the various meetings conclude up to the 

 month of October, I will now, for example, 



