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difficult horse to beat, and therefore a dangerous 

 one to bet agahist, unless he gives away a great 

 deal of weight to those horses that he may be 

 running with. The manner above mentioned 

 of finding out a horse's stride was practised in 

 my juvenile days, and I have often had recourse 

 to the same method myself. I allow it is an old 

 fashioned way, nevertheless it will not be found to 

 be a bad one ; and I think it more certain than 

 that of measuring a horse's stride on the ground 

 he has gone over; as, to do this, the ground must 

 be wet, with some degree of foot hold. 



Having mentioned all that appears to be neces- 

 sary on the subject of the action of race horses, 

 the next thing to notice is the pace they have 

 to go in their diiferent sorts of exercise, and how, 

 on various occasions, it is to be arranged. How- 

 ever slow the pace race horses may have to go in 

 their gallops, they, from the manner in which they 

 are taught to go in training, mostly put their fore 

 legs better out, and their hind ones better under 

 them, than horses in common use, and which 

 gives them (as has already been noticed), a 

 more settled and advantageous sort of stride; 

 that is, they will be observed to stride or gallop 

 along, instead of going the up and down cantering 



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