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ways show distress when they pull up at the end 

 of five or six furlongs after a slow-run race, and 

 just the contrary when the speed has been fast. 



The lung capacity in horses is necessarily a dif- 

 ficult question, but I am far from saying it cannot 

 be pretty accurately ascertained. On a straight and 

 level course I should fix one and a quarter miles, 

 or ten furlongs, as the extreme limit a horse is able 

 to gallop at high speed on the stock of air with 

 which he has supplied himself on jumping oil in 

 a race. It is far more accurate, however, to gauga 

 it, as I have said, by "period of time" than by dis- 

 tance; and when high speed has been maintained, I 

 have found the distance covered at the expiration 

 of a given time to be extremely coiTect. 



Everybody who goes racing has experienced the 

 very great discrepancy there is in the result be- 

 tween races run at a high rate of speed and those 

 run at a low rate, or, say, in the latter case, accord- 

 ing to the beau-ideal method so popular with very 

 many people — viz., to "wait, and then make one run 

 or dash at the finish." Races so run must necessa- 

 rily have a totally different result, and they always 

 have. It is ridiculous to suppose the same horse 

 would win in either case, or that the same horses 

 would be placed even in both instances. And, then, 

 what happens in races in this respect up to a f!i,Sr 



