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be ordered by their trainers to run for the 

 first heat, while others of them may not be re- 

 quired to run this heat. The orders given to the 

 jockeys who ride the last-mentioned horses is — 

 to wait, and not to run for the first heat. These 

 jockeys, therefore, follow as close to the horses 

 that are in front of them as may be necessary to 

 give to their own the opportunity to save their 

 distance. The jockeys, having done this, take a 

 pull at their horses, and allow them to go slowly 

 up the distance ; having passed the winning-post, 

 they pull them up, turn them about, and walk 

 them back to the scales, dismount and weigh. 



In describing the running of horses here, I 

 confess I have digressed a little from my subject. 

 I have done so merely to shew my readers, that 

 there is no danger to be apprehended from colts 

 following race horses in concluding their races, 

 as the course is invariably kept clear from the 

 crowd, until the whole of the horses that may be 

 running have passed on to the winning-post. 



As we are now satisfied that our yearlings will 

 boldly face the crowd when running, let us return 

 to the subject of the yearling stakes, of which 



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