56 FLAT-RAGING EXPLAINED. 



taiice of oue and a quarter miles would be different 

 m result with another set of horses in races of one 

 and a half miles and upwards. In the latter — 

 that is to say, in races of one and a half miles and 

 upwards — the discrepancy would not be so great, 

 for it is quite possible, whether these be run fast or 

 sloAv, the same horse may win, and the same horses 

 likewise may be placed. 



Referring to the former cases, in races up to one 

 and a quarter miles, at a high rate of speed, these 

 are run under conditions that do not alloAV a. re- 

 charging of air in a horse's lungs, and the shorter 

 the time that is taken to cover the distance, the 

 more certain will be the result. If the same race 

 should be run at low sjK^cd or on the "oue run or 

 dash" idea, the process of waiting so highly thought 

 of may or may not enable a horse to recharge with 

 air. Should a horse happen to be successful in this, 

 he will be the winner. 



In slow-run races at five furlongs, for instance, 

 if 3'ou see a liorse "drop from the clouds, '* as the 

 saying is, and, to the astonishm nt of evtnybody, 

 come out and win l)y lengths at the tinish, and 

 Ihen hardly blow enougli to put out a caudle, 

 this animal by some means, possibly by accident, 

 got his lungs recharged with air, while all the other 

 horses failed to do so. If it is, therefore, desirable 

 to cherish the fossil idea of the "glorious uncer- 



