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likely to run on; his speed appears to be extra- 

 ordinary; for, in his trials with the colts and 

 fillies as a yearling, he went with great ease 

 clean away from the whole of them, and beat the 

 colt that was second to him several lengths, with- 

 out his ever being called upon to do so. Now, 

 we know from public running, that our second 

 best colt is any thing but a bad one ; for from the 

 yearling race (already mentioned), in which he 

 ran, we have a right to think pretty highly of 

 him, and the more so, as he was not then, for 

 want of a little more time, quite at his best form, 

 and the race he ran in must, according to^the 

 account our jockey gave of it, have been truly 

 run, with all but our own colt, and he was 

 well up as a third; and the whole of them must 

 have come their best pace for as long a length 

 as they could in the running, as the other three 

 colts, admitting they were bad ones, could never 

 have been beat so very far from home as they 

 were but by the pace; for, from what I saw of 

 the race myself, they were beat from the early and 

 resolute running that the winning colt made of 

 his own accord, although with difficulty, against 

 the colt that was second to him. But now, sup- 

 posing from bad management that the three last 

 colts that were in the race did not come out as 



