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doing that which it is by no means common for 

 horses, when they get the chance, to do for them- 

 selves. 



But, after all, where would Roekdove have been 

 in the race had the jockeys on other horses been 

 able to do for them what the mare in que.^tion had 

 done for herself? 



Horses, as I have said before, having the most 

 capacious lungs cannot get beyond a mile and a 

 quarter in a fast run race on a level course without 

 a fresh supply, and when there are gradients they 

 cannot get that distance, or anything like it. 



From the same point of view I may take the 

 running of Georgic at Manchester, in the Cam- 

 bridgeshire, and in the Old Cambridgeshire, last 

 autumn. At the first named place there is no doubt 

 that, at tlje speed at which the race was run, it was 

 accomplished at one burst without reinflation of the 

 lungs. 



In the Cambridgeshire there is also no doubt it 

 was done at one "burst," and the watch quite clear- 

 ly made it to be so. In tue Old Cambridgeshire tl.e 

 mare ran with one "burst" only, and without rein- 

 flation she just got the running distance, as would 

 be shown to be a mile and a quarter on the level, 

 beyond which, as the race was run, she could not be 

 expected to go. 



The winner Nunsuch was ridden by Sloan, who 



