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feet horsemansliip ; and to these the jockey must 

 add an intuitive knowledge of pace, and a 

 thorough comprehension of a horse's powers. If 

 the spectator watch Fordham, Cannon, or 

 Archer, he will note how they glance at their 

 field and guage accui-ately, as the result so often 

 shows, what each horse is doing. They know 

 not only how their own horses are going, but 

 how every dangerous animal in the race is going 

 also. They understand to a second of time 

 when the final efforts should be made, and with 

 that inexplicable gift known technically as 

 " hands," Cannon and Fordham are peculiarly 

 successful in, as it were, persuading a beaten 

 horse that he is not beaten, and reserving some- 

 thing for the dash home. 



Sometimes it seems that a jockey makes his 

 effort a little too late, that if he had " come " 

 sooner he would just have won. Not long since 

 Cannon pulled his mount together some ten or 

 twelve strides from the winning post, rode his 

 hardest, and just failed. 



'*It seemed to me," a student said to an 

 acknowledged master of the art of horsemanship, 

 *' that Cannon came too late, and that he might 

 have just won the race. Do you think he would 

 have been beaten a head if he had come two 

 strides sooner ? " 



