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in reality it may not be the case, to be certain 

 you are right, you had better take a good pull at 

 him, and prick him on once or twice with your 

 spurs, speaking sharply to him at the same time; 

 then get up your whip and flourish it over either 

 his head or your own, and if he do not increase 

 his stride from being thus called upon to come in 

 concluding the trial, if he is up and well placed 

 among them, (but not otherwise on any account), 

 give him a blow or two to make him finish at his 

 best pace, just as he is about passing the win- 

 ning-post. Now, unless you ride your colt as I 

 have ordered you to do, he is so very craving a 

 one w^e may be deceived in him." The orders to 

 be given to Charles, who rides the four-year old, 

 will be very concise, as the head lad is always 

 supposed, from long experience, to know well 

 what he is going about. The trainer therefore 

 need only say to him — " Charles, as the trial 

 ground is quite straight, there is no great occa- 

 sion for you to study much about the choice of 

 places at the start. If Mr. Day in going ofl" takes 

 the whip-hand, take your place sufficiently wide 

 on the outside of them, and just keep your 

 horse's head up or near to the quarters of the two 

 colts, for, in case Mr. Day should find his horse 

 not quite fast enough in the finish to draw our 



