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their horses by superior jockey ship, or stable-boys 

 always to be condemned for want of skill when they 

 lose against more fashionable men : but that both at 

 times ride well, and both at times ride badly. 



In conclusion, I may point to the fact that Hermit, 

 Cossack, and Cotherstone were all beat as two-year- 

 olds with first-class men up. The last of the three 

 Avas not placed in the Criterion, but the next year, 

 18-13, won the Derby, and ran second to Nutwith in 

 the St. Leger, making about 3 st. improvement on 

 his two-year-old form. Cossack was beat as a two- 

 year-old, and yet the next year, 1817, Avon the Derby, 

 and ran second to Van Tromp for the St. Leger. 

 Hermit, who was beat at Newmarket and Epsom as a 

 two-year-old, won the Derby in 1867, and ran second 

 to Achievement for the St. Leger. It will be noticed, 

 as a coincidence, that all these three good horses and 

 Derby winners ran second in the St. Leger, and lost 

 the first race for which they started. After such in- 

 and-out running in the hands of eminent jockeys, and 

 the accurate results, such as those which I have 

 described, obtained with stable-boys up, who shall 

 confidently say that the one class of rider is more to 

 be relied upon than the other ? 



