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cieiit reason. If we want to find out the end 

 of a good one, we must try him as to weight 

 reasonably high, and in the same proportion we 

 must increase the length of the trial ground, so 

 as to give to a colt that may be considered a 

 regular flier sufficient scope to shew (without 

 allowing him to be abused) the powers he may 

 possess, as to how fast or how long he can go 

 under a weight a little higher than he has a right 

 to carry. We have therefore stated this second 

 trial to have terminated thus, merely to shew 

 how we are to make the most we can of such 

 a colt as we have represented our best one to 

 be; and in the next chapter we shall recom- 

 mend how the groom is quietly to turn those 

 matters over in his own mind. 



The above trial is supposed to have taken 

 place at our home stables about the middle of 

 March, just previously to our travelling the whole 

 of our horses off to Newmarket, at which town 

 we will now consider them to have arrived. From 

 this time to the running for the Derby, which 

 will be this year on the seventh of June, we shall 

 have about twelve weeks to do what we think is 

 best for our colts. Of this time we will take three 

 weeks to give to all our horses, according as 



