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of our colt in the early part of the running, 

 I could have won the race." The trainer, in 

 reply to the jockey, says — " I have no doubt you . 

 could have won the race, but according to the 

 running that was made by the other colts, you 

 could not have ridden ours in a more satisfac- 

 tory manner, to please me, than you have done. 

 For it certainly is of more consequence to us, 

 to have taken the measurement we have of the 

 other colts, than that our colt should have won 

 the stakes, and that we afterwards should have 

 been left in ignorance as to the company he had 

 been running in, which in all probability would 

 have been the case. For had you, in the early part 

 of the race, gone out in front of them, and made 

 the running with our colt, which you must have 

 done to have won with him, you could not then 

 have had so good an opportunity of seeing whe- 

 ther it was a true run race or not with the whole 

 of the other colts, and as our colt was placed but 

 a middling third, the public, if they think any- 

 thing at all about him, will form rather a bad 

 opinion of him." Thus concludes the conversa- 

 tion between the trainer and his jockey. 



The yearling race being run, and the meeting 

 concluded, our two horses and our two yearlings 



