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ring some extraordinary adverse contingency, the 

 result may be considered as certain. Thus the man 

 who has means to purchase the right sort of horse, 

 and judgment in his subsequent management, is next 

 to certain to turn him to good account. 



Now comes the important question, of what is the 

 right sort to produce this desirable result ? ''Ay, there's 

 the rub ;" but this is readily answered ; the right sort 

 is that sort best suited to the particular purpose for 

 which he is to be used ; for unless he is so, all the 

 judgment, all the horsemanship or coachmanship in 

 the world will avail little ; for as a jockey once said 

 to me, in allusion to a horse he had been riding, '' IS"© 

 man can win upon a sack of oats, and that horse is 

 little better." Small prospect of making money on 

 the turf with such an animal, though he might win a 

 saddle and bridle. Here want of judgment influenced 

 the purchaser, which no after-judgment can compensate 

 for. It is quite true that such an animal will be far 

 better under good management than bad ; but, to carry 

 out the jockey's idea. What is the use of a '' sack of 

 oats " as a race-horse ? It would be pretty much the 



