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within their stride, but make them do, as to 

 pace, what is necessary they should ; and horses 

 go better and more kindly with good riders upon 

 them than when they are ridden by bad or in- 

 ferior ones, as with those last-mentioned they 

 are apt to take liberties. Unless, as occasion 

 may require, grooms regulate the selection of 

 their boys, as I have directed them to do in re- 

 spect to the riding of different horses, some of 

 them would get into bad tricks or habits, which 

 it may afterwards be difficult to get them out of. 

 Those among them that may be idle, lurching 

 horses would become cunning, they would, what 

 is termed, " shut up" with bad riders in their gal- 

 lops and sweats ; in other words, they would sulk, 

 and not go in them at the pace they ought. 

 Horses having got into tricks of this sort, it is 

 not only difficult, but often next to impossible, 

 for even a good and determined jockey to rouse 

 them out of such habits at the time they may 

 be running. If a jockey cannot succeed in get- 

 ting a horse to give his race kindly, the horse 

 will of course be beat. Other horses that pull 

 a little and are rather determined goers, and 

 that may sometimes require to be taken along 

 at a tolerable good pace in their exercise, if 

 on such occasions they are ridden by light boys. 



