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the jockey, as to how the colt in question is to be 

 ridden, than any very accurate or strict order 

 to him on the subject. 



Our jockey having brought himself down to 

 the weight he is to ride, the trainer in the morn- 

 ing of the day the yearling stakes are to be run 

 for, begins to converse with him as to how he 

 wishes him to ride our colt in the race. He 

 says to the jockey — " You must mind to get this 

 idle yearling of ours well away with the rest of 

 them from the start; as it is a short length you 

 have to run, you must of course keep your place. 

 But as our colt is not very likely to set-to of 

 his own accord to run early in the race, you will 

 be able to see what the rest of them are about, 

 and which among them are likely to run honestly 

 home. What I want you to do with our year- 

 ling is, to take as good a measurement as you 

 possibly can of all the others. I would much ra- 

 ther you did this than that you should call se- 

 verely on our colt to come with a view to win 

 the stakes, and perhaps, after all, you could 

 only be second, which you know is the worst 

 place you can be in, unless under certain circum- 

 stances, which we in the present instance have 

 no occasion to trouble ourselves about. However, 



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