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run, and at what time we shall travel them to 

 Epsom, and, when there, how we shall finish them 

 as to the length and pace they will have to go 

 in their work, when the time is drawing near 

 for them to come to post, and how they are 

 each to be set agreeable to their constitutions ; 

 with orders to the jockeys how each colt is to be 

 ridden, so as to insure us, barring an accident, 

 every prospect of honestly winning that valuable 

 and very interesting stake, the Derby. 



In this volume we have principally confined 

 ourselves to the training of horses for the New- 

 market lengths ; but in the ensuing volume, which 

 is preparing for the press, where we shall have 

 to describe the training of horses of all ages, we 

 will make our remarks on the varying of the 

 different lengths horses are to go in their work 

 to bring them sufficiently stout to come the 

 lengths they may be wanted to run upon any 

 occasion; and in other chapters will be found all 

 the necessary information on the entering, train- 

 ing, running, and riding, of different horses ac- 

 cording to their ages, the lengths they have to 

 run in their races, with all other practical de- 

 tails connected with horse racing ; and, if it is 

 not considered that we may be entering too far 



