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ride, are well able, as soon as they have got the 

 horses they are riding well off and settled in their 

 stride, to take a- pull and keep them together ; 

 those that may be on the class of free goers, (for, 

 as I have repeatedly observed, all horses that have 

 to go a good pace occasionally in their exercise 

 must be classed according to what they are), as 

 well as those that may be on the idle, lurching 

 sort of horses, will, as soon as they have them 

 settled in their stride, get determinedly at them, 

 and not only keep them straight in their gallops 

 as they are going along with them, but will also 

 draw them well out, and continue them on to the 

 end of the gallop at the pace the groom may 

 have ordered them to go. Nor will the additional 

 weight of the bigger boys be of any consequence, 

 at least at the particular time to which I am 

 now alluding, that is, the time the horses are 

 about to finish their v/ork before they come out 

 to run ; for, although at this period they have 

 to go faster in their gallops, the length they go 

 in them is somewhat shortened. In fact, it is 

 always the best plan, when horses have to go 

 a telling pace in any part of their exercise or 

 work, if firm and well on their feet and legs, 

 to put up boys of power to ride them, as they 

 not only make them go straight, and keep them 



