90 FLAT-RACING EXPLAINED. 



latter of which, by the way, being of no good 

 whatever when it is not in that state. Then you 

 must carefully observe what is going on in the 

 course of the race. 



Some horses you will see to be "racing," while 

 others are not, and the latter category you will 

 discover to amount to an average of about 05 per 

 cent, or thirteen out of every twenty, conoerning 

 the running of which no question of time need be 

 entertained. The "racing horses" are those to be 

 kept in view, and it is marvellous the accuracy 

 with which horses perform under conditions to 

 which I shall presently refer. 



When you have parcelled off your "wet-ground" 

 and your "dry-ground" horses, you then have to 

 deal with those taken from these lists having 

 speed either for the level only or the incline only; 

 and now and again you will come across an ani- 

 mal having no speed whatever on either of these 

 kind of courses, no matter what the state of the 

 ground might be, but with terrific speed downhill, 

 stopping to nothing directly the end of it is 

 reached, though it lands him apparently on the 

 level. 



The only conclusion to be drawn from the some- 

 what wonderful information derived from a 

 watch, when correctly used, is that in the physical 

 construction of horses, when at the gallop, there 



