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1873 requires further revision— Nursery handicaps 

 —Weights when 'guesswork'— Weights assigned 

 by merit — Weights governed by scale — Horses di- 

 vided into classes— Unknown merit governed by 

 rule— Weight for two-year-olds— Principle of ad- 

 justing weights should be made gradual in opera- 

 tion 77-86 



CHAPTER X. 



COURSES. 



Believed to be the best in the world— All differ in for- 

 mation—Clerks of courses— Surveys not made- 

 Why there is contradictory running— Gradients— 

 What should be done— Distance and level— Surface 

 measurements— Running distances— Racing on 

 rolled grass— Management of courses on Newmar- 

 ket Heath ...... 87-93 



CHAPTER XI. 



TIME. 



Records of races 4,000 in number— Value of the use 

 of the watch— How to use it— Racing and non-rac- 

 ing horses — Wet-ground and dry-ground horses — 

 Horses for level or incline only — Angle in physical 

 construction of horses at present unknown— Rel- 

 ative speed in horses — Horses repeat performances 

 — Workington's running — Amphion's fastest race — 

 Best Man not of the Mellon tribe— Florizel II. . 94-102 



CHAPTER XII. 



TIME (continued). 



Time: how applied to placed horses-^Georgic's speed 

 at Manchester and at Newmarket— Georgic com- 



