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find out the weak points of the "young uns," if they 

 have any. I can perfectly well remember walking 

 with Norman and Jem Goater on many occasions 

 to Stetchworth and Dullingham, the former having 

 on twice as many sweaters as we had. He would 

 call at Bob Union's, at Dullingham, have three parts 

 of a pint of old beer (which very few jockeys could 

 touch at such a time), and go a long round, perhaps 

 three or four miles further than we did, and turn up 

 on the course as fresh as possible. Norman was the 

 only man I ever knew who walked wasting every 

 day, whether he had anything to ride or not. It 

 was quite hard work enough when you had anything 

 to do it for, without doing it on chance, but he 

 appeared to thoroughly enjoy the performance. 



