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and sacrificed by taking him oft' after a heat is 

 run. 



And a horse will change in his two days run- 

 ning very much for the worse if he has been fed 

 and watered too plentifully. I have no doubt but 

 that's the case at times, and from a supposed 

 kindness to the horse, by unskilful people. A 

 horse should be fed and watered lightly for his 

 second day's race ; for, from a horse being sharp 

 set on the muzzle, and heated with running, his 

 veins and bowels are empty, narrow, and dry ; so 

 that what is given him is likely to stay with him 

 till after his second race ; and if a horse happens 

 to be thus overfilled, it must at times affect him 

 very much in his second running. None but the 

 person who had tlie management of Skylark 

 knows but he might be thus sent out to run his 

 second race with Escape. Skylark was a wonder- 

 ful close and large-carcased horse, and started 

 close to his stable this last day ; and if thus over- 

 fed, he liad not so great a time as horses generally 



have 



