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By doing this himself, he saves in every particular 

 the profits of the trainer, who, as a matter of course, 

 has his on all he does or has done to the horses under 

 his charge. If the owner leaves home to superintend 

 his horse at any meeting where he sends him to run, 

 his bare expenses are all that have to be taken out 

 of his winning, if he does win. He probably drives 

 in his gig there, or rides ; the trainer charges a fair 

 price for his conveyance, go as he may : nor is he 

 to be expected to leave his home business without 

 being paid for it. The expenses of the lad taking 

 the horse are to be paid for in the same ratio ; such 

 expenses, or much heavier ones, are a matter beneath 

 consideration where high prizes are run for, but they 

 tell wofully against those where the ''take up" is 

 but small, if won ; and it is only for such that in- 

 ferior horses are qualified to run with any reasonable 

 hope of winning. Another advantage a man gains 

 by training his own horses, if inferior animals, is, they 

 meet with under his hands every attention, which 

 would not be the case in the generality of public 

 trainicg-stables, where such horses are considered all 



