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distance, and looked like coming in alone. Directly the 

 shouting commenced, and he could see the crowd, he shut 

 up like a clasp-knife, and was shortly after relegated to the 

 cab-rank, in which I hope he will long live to expiate the sin 

 of the unfulfilled promise of his youth." 



If a jady horse manages to run a dead heat in a race for 

 which there are several starters, the chances are in favour 

 of his winning the deciding heat, supposing that he has not 

 had much punishment. I was greatly impressed with this 

 fact on seeing the running of The Ghost, in the Clewer Welter, 

 at the Windsor July Meeting for 1877. This arrant thief, 

 who was a non-stayer, ran a dead heat, Custance up, in the 

 race in question, with Mr. Gretton's Dovedale, steered by 

 Cannon. I knew the mare could stay a bit, so backed her 

 in the deciding heat, and lost my money ; for The Ghost 

 won cleverly. Although the second journey was all against 

 him, he ran quite a different horse to what he did the first 

 time of asking. 



Nothing is- more calculated to make a horse a rogue than 

 running him a severe race when he is out of condition. 



RIDING PULLERS. 



Although a curb is objectionable from its tendency to 

 make a horse go " round " and high ; still, if a jockey cannot 

 hold a horse in any kind of snaffle, it is better for him to 

 use a curb, taking care to put it low down in his mouth, 

 than to take the chance of his running himself to a stand- 

 still, or to be obliged to saw his mouth or pull his head 

 about, so as to keep him in his place. Speaking to and 

 humouring a horse a little will often make him stop pulling. 

 We should drop the hands when a horse gets his head 

 up, and should take a pull the moment he lowers it. If 

 possible, a large smooth unjointed snaffle (Fig. 117) should 



