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they have on them ; they will almost instantly 

 take advantage of those that are bad ones, as 

 they will also of small light boys that may be 

 incapable of holding them, or of forcing them 

 on at such times as it may be necessary for 

 them to go at a breathing pace, as in the con- 

 cluding of a certain length of their last two or 

 three sweats, or in the last two or three gallops, 

 they will have to take on the two or three last 

 days previous to their coming out to run. 



Whenever a groom intends giving any of his 

 horses a good brushing gallop, as perhaps a day 

 or two before sweating, or indeed more particu- 

 larly at the time I have just mentioned, as when 

 horses are about to finish their work before their 

 races, the groom must bear in mind, that, ge- 

 nerally speaking, those that are free goers are 

 much more difficult to be held when going a 

 good pace in company with others, than they 

 would be in going a slow pace when alone ; while 

 others that are idle and lurchingly disposed will 

 be quite as difficult to be made go at the pace 

 required of them. Under the above-mentioned 

 circumstances, the groom must change the light 

 or bad riding boys for bigger ones of much more 

 power and experience, who, when they are put up to 



