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ternity : there is no reason why he may not start his 

 horse, or horses, for one or all these. If he be a good 

 horseman, and possess nerve and hand sufficient to 

 enable him to ride his own horse, so much the better ; 

 he will be sure he is at least honestly ridden : but to 

 do this with any fair chance of success, he must as his 

 hunters ride horses of no ordinary pretensions : he 

 must, in fact, buy and ride horses that can race ; 

 for he must bear in mind that though a very inferior 

 race-horse will, with proper practice and tuition, 

 make a superior hunter, a very valuable hunter, that 

 has no racing qualifications about him, would be a 

 most inferior steeple-chase horse ; in fact, would not 

 have the ghost of a chance against a horse of infinitely 

 less value with a little racing turn of speed about 

 him. Let his owner have sense enough to ride his 

 horse as a hunter, keeping perfectly quiet any racing 

 properties he may possess : his acquaintance regard- 

 ing his horse as a hunter only, will enter their own 

 against him; tlie result, barring accidents, will be 

 tolerably certain, the stakes will pay for the keep 

 of the horse and training expenses, and probably 



