370 training-groom's reflections. 



ways been a good doer, as well in as out of the 

 stable. And, if we are fortunate enough to get 

 him well to post, that is, if nothing happens to 

 him, either from disease or accident, as he is well 

 engaged, he will be likely to do us some good. I 

 think, if he comes to post in his proper form, we 

 have a right to win the Derby with him. This 

 stake is not only an interesting one, but it is a 

 respectable one to win, and it is also a valuable 

 one; and, it being a play and pay race, it makes 

 the betting P. P. ; and, as we have both colts in 

 the race, our second-best colt having good speed, 

 and being so very stout, as from his public run- 

 ning he appears to be, it will, I think, be rather 

 difficult for any party of horses to continue to run 

 fast enough and long enough to draw him well 

 out and beat him, before he gets sufficiently near 

 home as to be within the length of rally in which 

 our best colt can live or finish at near the top of 

 his pace, when called upon by his jockey, or chal- 

 lenged by any horse in the company he is run- 

 ning with, to the passing of the winning post. 



The trainer now begins further to calculate on 

 what steps he had better take to ensure, as near 

 as he possibly can, the winning of the above race 

 with the colt in question. He says — We must 



