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litter disappointment. The last time that I ever 

 cared to look at the horse again was after he had 

 been put to hurdle-jumping, and was sent to run in 

 a race up the hill at Sandown Park. And what a 

 sorry exliibition it was! I had seen him go with the 

 dash of a rocket over ground tliat was as Nature in- 

 tended. Here, on gradients which Nature, in his 

 case at least, never intended, he ran, to my thinking, 

 as helpless as a cab-horse, and with about the same 

 look of discouragement. 



It is impossible to say, with a horse of the tem- 

 perament of Ingebrigt when at three years of age, 

 what would have been the result if his sensitiveness 

 had been humored, to the extent that he would never 

 have been galloped or raced on other than level 

 ground, and not beyond, in point of distance, five or 

 six furlongs. Built on lines wholly for speed, with 

 "recoil" so prompt that the strength of his back must 

 have been prodigious, one marvels that a horse pos- 

 sessing special characteristics like this should be 

 taken out of his sphere, and put to accompllsli things 

 for which he is wholly unfitted. Tliis compels me 

 to say that, in this particular, the art of training ap- 

 pears to fail in a way not to he exp(}cted, seeing the 

 results of experience and good judgment in other 

 directions. 



As a rule, owmers seldom exhibit skill or judgment 



