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wind, lie will very soon do ; and having got what is 

 termed his second wind, he resumes his place in the 

 foremost rank. But in a race he has no time for 

 this : if brought to anything like extremity, his 

 chance is out. In hunting, if a man only pays com- 

 mon attention to his horse, he will find his energies 

 gradually decrease when distress comes on : it is not 

 so in a race ; he may feel fresh on entering a field, 

 but before he has half crossed it that indescribable 

 feeling comes on, that tells him accustomed to riding 

 race-horses, that if he were to persevere at the same 

 pace for fifty strides further, his horse would neces- 

 sarily shut up : then it would take so long a time for 

 him to recover, that he is virtually out of the race ; 

 for though that time is a short one in hunting, and 

 a slackened pace during that period only lets the 

 field get part of an enclosure ahead, three minutes is 

 an age in steeple-chasing — in fact, probably a fourth 

 part of the time a steeple-chase occupies; and when 

 four miles are frequently run in that time, the reader 

 will see that none of that time must be wasted. In 

 flat racing, a horse is not unfrequently, in figurative 



