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are sufficient examples to illustrate my meaning. 

 On the other hand, you have horses condemned 

 and termed rogues which are certainly nothing of the 

 kind, but are really light-hearted, timid animals that 

 are frightened to death at the whip. These are the 

 sort that generally get the most whalebone ; conse- 

 quently, when they are asked to go and finish, or 

 win their race, they are afraid to do so, and they 

 curl up, instead of stretching themselves out and 

 making the most of their action — in fact, they 

 shorten their stride, and in reality are not half 

 galloping. I have known several instances of this 

 kind, and will quote two in particular. One was 

 the horse ' Lytham,' that fell and broke my collar- 

 bone at Epsom in 1866. I have previously said 

 they put blinkers on him, so that I could hit him 

 without him seeing me. Poor brute ! he was so 

 afraid of the whip that I rode him three or four 

 times without one, as he always had his eyes back 

 on it to see if you were going to pick it up to hit 

 him. At last he regained confidence, and, carrying 

 a big weight, 1 won the Rothamstead Plate and 

 the Harpenden Handicap on him (after a dead- 

 heat), both races being run the same day. In addi- 

 tion, I also won the Bath Handicap with him, and 

 never had a whip in my hand. I only quote this to 



