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well done up at the finish, owing to pace,, 

 excitement, and temperature, twenty minutes 

 are allowed between each heat for " cooling 

 off" purposes. 



When a horse is distanced in one of these 

 trials, he is at once withdrawn ; and the judges 

 have the privilege, which they use, of dis- 

 tancing a horse for breaking — or, as we would 

 say, commencing to run — which is, as may be 

 supposed, a thing most difficult to prevent. 



Sometimes a racehorse is hitched double 

 with a trotter. This is called, in American 

 parlance, a running-mate. The runner takes 

 all the weight and draft of the ** sulky," and 

 the trotter merely trots alongside of him. It 

 requires a very level-headed horse to keep 

 evenly to his trot, with a runner tearing away 

 at sweeping pace beside him, and the trial is 

 regarded as simply one of skill, and is rarely 

 successful. A trotter who can coolly and 

 evenly maintain his trot when hitched with a 

 racer, can command for his owner any amount 

 of money, even though he be in all other 

 respects comparatively worthless. 



Eaces, of which many are held at Khode 



