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difficult to judge to one point, and we suspect that in most 

 ■cases judges make tlieir awards less by the strict reading of 

 their notes than by the general impression derived from watch- 

 ing the competitor. Numbers awarded at any early stage may 

 be quite discounted by some glaring error connnitted later. 

 We refrain from oftering further suggestions on the matter of 

 judging, as the very fact of a person occupying the position 

 of judge presupposes him possessed of a full and intimate 

 knowledge of the technique of liorse-shoeing. 



