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colt, even if it is a little longer length than one of 

 his year ought to come, provided the weight he has 

 to carry is proportionably light> according to the ' 

 increased length he may have to run. It must 

 be a good one that can shake him off; he can not 

 only come from end to end, hut in taking a pull 

 at him he always finishes well; and what goes 

 to prove this is, I have never once had occasion 

 to get up my whip, at least not to strike him 

 with it, in either of the races I have ridden 

 him. In the race he was beat in you said, 

 when giving me my orders, * That if I found the 

 horses he had to run with were too fast for him, 

 not to be severe upon him, for that he was not 

 so well as he ought to be:' nor could he be so, 

 for, as I told you, after weighing, he gave over 

 running almost a distance before we came to 

 the winning post; yet I do not think he ran in 

 better company in that race than he did in any 

 of his other races, but, as he was not well, I 

 could not expect him to win." The trainer, 

 in addressing himself to the third boy, says — 

 " That horse of your's, Tom, has been going 

 before these two colts when they have been 

 doing any thing like a bit of work." Tom, in 

 reply, says — " Yes, he has ; and they have both 



