HOW TO MAKE ilONEY BY HORSES. 79 



animal ; but, cui bono, if in the last ten strides the 

 other left him the moment he was called on, they 

 are both honest, and superior animals ; but the one 

 is a race-horse, the other is not, nor has the peculiar 

 physical power, or rather attribute, ever to become 

 one. Buy him, I say, buy him by all means ; he 

 will be found to keep close company with, or even 

 pass, if wanted to do so, " The flying Ladies," though 

 many race-horses passed him. 



I have often, in slang phrase, '' waited on" such 

 horses and their owners, feeling quite sure that time, 

 if not persuasion, would tire out the owner, and that 

 he would at last be convinced that racing was not in 

 his horse's ''vocation ;" and, as our continental neigh- 

 bours would say, '' savoir profiler d'wi heureux mo- 

 menty^ has induced me to step in when the owner 

 has determined to '* get rid of the beast," who I 

 ushered into his stall as perhaps the pride and pick 

 of my stable, or, at all events, as one likely to be- 

 come so. 



I should not have been weak enough to have at- 

 tempted this with men who kept hunters as well as 



