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more than a length; but I clearly saw how the 

 running was; it was a true run race between 

 them, but I clo not think it was accurately so 

 with our colt; for, after I had got him pretty 

 well out, he kept his place in the run to the 

 winning-post, and as they (the two jockeys that 

 were in front) saw me persevering with our colt, 

 when they commenced their run, they would na- 

 turally conclude, as I was third, that their colts 

 were faster than ours, and more particularly so, 

 as they also saw I was obliged, in the early part 

 of the running, to take an occasional pull at our 

 colt to urge him on, merely to make him keep 

 his place ; but as I did not in any part of the 

 race call severely on our colt to come, he pulled 

 up fresh and well. The colt that won, and the 

 one that was second, appeared to me, as they 

 walked back to the scales, to have been at 

 all they could do; and I am pretty certain, 

 that, if they had much farther to have gone, at 

 the pace they were at in the run home, they 

 must in some degree have come back to me ; so 

 that if our colt is not quite as fast as either of 

 the other two, I am confident he is much stouter. 

 Indeed, if you had not been so very anxious 

 about the measurement of the five colts, I feel 

 quite certain, that if I had made more use 



