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tiling, unless by his owner's judgment producing 

 profit in the way of sale ; the race-horse must be a 

 wretch indeed if he does not win something in the 

 season, or the owner's judgment must be as bad a.s 

 the horse ; besides this, if a man buys a race-horse, 

 and by some good management causes him to show 

 himself a better horse than he was held to be at the 

 time of purchase, he will find purchasers for him at a 

 price as much advanced as is the horse in public esti- 

 mation. The great thing against which any, and 

 every man, keeping race-horses should guard himself, 

 is the not being misled b}^ the success of his horses 

 (if they are successful), and thus fancying that be- 

 cause they win moderate stakes, that they have a 

 chance of winning higher ones ; a most fatal error, 

 and one it requires no small degree of firmness to 

 abstain from. Many men, led on by their horse 

 often winning against a certain field, are apt to forget 

 that in company only a little better, the same horse 

 has no more chance than he would have if he run for 

 a Derby : it is the being a little better that wins tlie 

 race, for horses do not usually start together where 



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