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just as bad as ever, till the native jockey Kairoo was 

 put up to steer him in a chase. Kairoo, who was 

 naturally a fine horseman, rode on Allen McDonough's 

 principle — namely, " don't pull your horse and he won't 

 pull you " — though I am quite certain that he had never 

 even heard of the great chase rider and trainer who 

 used to live at Fairymount. Kairoo rode the grey in 

 a snaffle and solved the mystery of his pulling. Not 

 long ago I read an article in a London sporting paper, 

 in which the writer advocated the practice of allowing 

 a horse to run away as a cure for hard pulling ! 

 Strange to say the writer was not of the Haymarket 

 or Criterion style of sportsman, but one who ought to 

 have known better. People who write like this have 

 probably never heard that a horse has got such things 

 as suspensory ligaments and back tendons. 



Mr. Hargreave followed his luck (as far as honour 

 and glory went) in winning on Countess, by securing 

 the Galloway chase on Adele for the Horse Gunners. 

 He was an uncommonly hard man over a country, 

 though he lacked some of the finish and elegancies 

 of the art of race riding, so well illustrated by poor 

 Mr. W. Thacker, " Captain Dudley," and Mr. Rowland 

 Hudson. 



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