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of doing so; if he is too often made use of in 

 this way, he not only becomes stale and slow, 

 but he soon gets below his proper form, and he. 

 will, unless he is very placid in his temper, want 

 to be first in every thing, which may not, under 

 all circumstances, be exactly what is required of 

 him; in other words, he becomes difficult to be 

 held when going in company with other horses, 

 not only in his exercise, but what may be of 

 more consequence, in his races ; and if he is diffi- 

 cult to be held in those, a jockey may not be 

 able, when riding such a horse, to get him to 

 run agreeably to the orders he (the jockey) may 

 have received from the trainer. It is therefore 

 not only advisable that a horse should not too 

 often lead the gallop for others, but that such 

 horse should be put into a string to follow 

 others; or if a horse cannot be got to do this 

 sort of thing quietly, he should be allowed to go 

 by himself in his gallops. 



Further, with regard to selecting a horse to 

 lead others in their work; the training groom of 

 a private establishment has the power of select- 

 ing anyone he may best approve of; but he must 

 recollect that the horse that leads is in want 

 of the same sort of treatment as those that are 



