/8 HINTS TO horsemen; or, 



I have bought many horses that, as race -horses, 

 their infatuated owners have kept on from two to 

 four years old, in hopes of their training on. Such 

 horses are more fatal to the unfortunate owner than 

 even the worst weed that ever was foaled ; for the 

 latter soon shews he is good for nothing, gets sold 

 off, and there is an end of the expense about him. 

 *' So much for Buckingham." But the other rogues 

 are just good enough to delude their owner, and, in 

 some instances, their trainer, and not good enough 

 to realize the hopes of either. A young man who con- 

 ducts himself with respectabilityj gives fair promise 

 of satisfaction to himself, his family, and friends ; 

 but a young race-horse who runs respectably, is the 

 very d — 1. Some have the happy knack of running 

 decently in most sorts of company, may shew in the 

 front rank in some, but never run fii-st in any. The 

 secret, if secret it can be called, is this — they are really 

 good horses, but have no finishing powers as race- 

 horses. If a horse went away from the post with a first- 

 rate horse, and ran him saddle-girth to saddle-girth 

 lor two miles, it would show he was a very superior 



