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every time. Put him in the second stable." 



And into the second stable I went, while 

 Runstar went into the first. Is there anything 

 more disheartening to a young horse .'^ Here, 

 right at the start of his career, he is placed with 

 the cast-offs, the geldings, the selling platers, 

 the horses that have never won a race in many 

 starts or that did not show sufficient fire for 

 stud. 



And there I stayed for a year, receiving scant 

 consideration to that lavished upon the promis- 

 ing yearlings in the first stable. I was broken 

 to saddle. It did not take long. And then 

 various exercise boys mounted me and took 

 me out on the great track for trials. That track 

 was a beauty, as finely kept as any racing 

 association track, harrowed continually, cared 

 for like milady's complexion. Such tracks are 

 the rule at all the great racing stables. And 

 around it the boys would send me for a fur- 

 long while some one clocked my time. 



I was a disappointment. I could see that. 



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