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hear the odds being cried without a sinking of 

 our spirit. Besides, men who strive to beat the 

 bookmakers at their own game, so to speak, have 

 not much left to play with, as a rule, when the 

 numbers go up for the last race. 



" Flyers " over a country have to be tried just 

 as carefully, of course, as " flyers " on the flat, 

 and there is no reason to doubt that the results 

 achieved are equally reliable. The services of 

 jockeys ought to be utilised as far as possible in 

 such gallops. Another matter to be remembered 

 is this : Some horses do not go as well in public 

 as in the home trial, and that delinquency on 

 their part has been the cause of a great deal of 

 money being left in the ring. Many worthy 

 trainers and owners have been thus stripped, to 

 some extent, of their unearned or hard-earned 

 increment through no fault of their own. A 

 gay deceiver has, in sportive phrase, put them 

 in the cart. A " welsher " in equine garb has 

 lightened their pockets. 



And now, as the saying is, for the interpreta- 

 tion of the dream. Once I tried a horse called 

 " J.B." at Walton, and also at Gatwick, 2 miles 

 over hurdles. There were three in the gallop ; 

 all were ridden by jockeys with the colours on ; 

 it was a rattling good spin, and, naturally, I was 



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