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a general way, I should not apply to a sailor for his 

 opinion whether or not the Flying Dutchman, take 

 him all in all, was a better horse than Voltigeur : 

 but I should rely with perfect confidence on that of 

 Captain Eous on this or any other circumstance con- 

 nected with racing. 



If I have spoken of city men as affording a bad 

 sample of good taste as regards horses, equipages, &c., 

 it is of the city in general that I have spoken ; for I 

 could point out men of city avocations whose equi- 

 pages are in as good taste as any to be found at the 

 West End. If I have spoken disparagingly of them 

 in a general way as sportsmen, I am quite ready to 

 allow that among them are to be found men as en- 

 thusiastic in their sporting pursuits as others, and 

 some of them as good sportsmen. 



In short, whenever my observations may border on 

 ridicule of a particular class, it in no way means to 

 include every individual of that class. 



I in no way mean to say it is necessary for every 

 man to make himself a perfect judge of horses ; this 

 I do not mean to say, it becomes absolutely necessary 



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