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to let something make the running quite ir- 

 respective of what pace it was made at. Well, 

 I took my mare to the front before we had gone 

 a quarter of a mile, and I cantered the whole 

 journey till two fences from home. I declare I 

 did not go twelve miles an hour, but they were 

 quite content to wait on me. When I got so 

 far on the journey I shook her up and let her 

 go best pace home. She took them clean off 

 their legs and won anyhow.' 



' I hope you will get this horse home all 

 right/ said Ray Danby. ' I am sure he will win 

 you many a good chase, and as he is a maiden 

 over a country, I should advise you to run him 

 in the Grand National Hunt Steeplechase. You 

 will have all the season to school him with your 

 own hounds, and I venture to prophesy that he 

 will be just about your favourite horse by the 

 time cub-hunting is over.' 



If the number of coaches and carriages that 

 were to be seen wending their way to the race- 

 course on the eventful Monday afforded any 

 criterion, it might fairly be said that the match 



