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merely slipped off the foot, a judicious kick 

 with the toe turned very much inwards will 

 often recover it. 



I don't think much of either whip or spur 

 as a means of increasing speed in a horse, 

 either across country or on the flat. Many 

 a race has been lost by the injudicious use 

 of one, or both ; and were it not for a whole- 

 some dread of the law of libel, I would give 

 an instance of this, which occurred in the 

 Cesarewitch, not very many years back, to a 

 horse I frequently rode myself. Archer, who 

 was close up with the leaders at the finish, 

 was my authority for saying that the horse 

 must have won by five or six lengths, instead 

 of being beaten, but for the jockey picking 

 up his whip "to win with a flourish." The 

 stable was nearly ^9000 "out" over that 

 whip mark ! On returning to scale, the jockey 

 immediately excused himself and blamed his 

 horse for being "ungenerous" in stopping. 



" And if he hadn't stopped, / should 



have blamed him for being a d d fool ! " 



answered his trainer, looking straight at the 



