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of these are never galloped again. Perhaps they are 

 put into a selling race, which they win, and their 

 party let them go at auction, thinking that they 

 have several better at home. How often it is, when 

 they meet again in public, the "cast-off" comes 

 and beats the very animals which had been tried and 

 found superior in private, thus upsetting all calcula- 

 tions ! This shows that an owner ought never to part 

 with an animal unless he has tried him on long and 

 short courses, and made sure that he is not worth 

 retaining. Many mistakes are made by not finding 

 out whether a horse possesses speed or stamina. A 

 two-year-old is galloped over five furlongs, and is 

 beaten off. but if the gallop had been a mile, or even 

 more, he might have turned the tables on his con- 

 querors. There are lots of youngsters useless in a 

 five-furlong trial, because, being bad beginners, they 

 oet bustled, are never allowed to gret into their 

 stride, and then are condemned as worthless. Try 

 them a distance of a mile, and the result will pro- 

 bably be very different. Many examples can be 

 given to illustrate my meaning, but I need only 

 allude to a little horse called ' Charon,' beloneine to 

 Mr. Henry Chaplin, which I rode in several short- 

 distance races. Eventually, after passing through 

 Lord Wilton's hands, Tom Green, of Beverley, 



