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are open to you this is not difficult to do. Then on 

 Waterloo day, if you are for the Middle Park, buckle 

 on your armour and return to the spot where your 

 selected treasure stands. The change in the appear- 

 ance from the long, furry, soft winter coat to the 

 short fine silky summer one, will have produced such 

 an alteration that, if unaccustomed to yearlings, you 

 may hardly recognize your choice, but having done 

 so, what before you were only delighted with you will 

 now be enamoured of. 



Do not feel frightened at some of the favourites 

 being knocked down at from fifteen hundred to two 

 thousand pounds. That cannot be considered so very 

 enormous for yearlings that in two years time may 

 win twenty to thirty thousand, and where the owner 

 may have paid four or five thousand for the sire and 

 one to two for the dam. Under these circumstances, 

 with the stakes and betting in prospective, and the 

 beautiful state in which they leave the stud, they may 

 be cheap at two thousand pounds, though three years 

 after they may be dear at as many pence ; but as you 

 intend bidding only for shape and beauty, caring 

 naught whether the parents won or lost, or never ran 

 at all, you may occasionally become possessed of a 

 first rate for a clear hundred, a few more or less. Do 

 not lose your choice for a ten pound note, but having 



