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same by weiglit : up to a certain point they will run 

 well at any weight, but after that certain weight, be 

 it what it may, a very few pounds leaves them help- 

 less. It may seem extraordinary that a horse who 

 can ran respectably under from seven to eight stone 

 seven or ten pounds, should be beat, in j&gurative 

 terms, like a common hack if nine stone is put on, 

 but so it is ; and so is the horse that can run and 

 win against a certain class of competitors, beaten as 

 decidedly by those only a little better. I have men- 

 tioned a hundred as a supposed price of an inferior 

 race-horse; it may seem a low one for an animal 

 bearing the name of race-horse, but I must apprise 

 the totally uninitiated in such matters, that I have 

 stated a very handsome price as regards many bear- 

 ing such name and showing in such character. 

 Three or four horses walking along the road or en- 

 tering an inn yard, in the way racing horses are 

 seen, create quite a sensation among the bystanders. 

 In the first place, their being led each by his own 

 lad, leads to the supposition that they are too valuable 

 to be ridden on any ordinary occasion ; then their 



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