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me differently, so I went and found the boy and 

 told him to come to me the next day with his horn 

 — which he did. I took the string out, and told 

 the boy to blow as we passed him. He did so, and 

 Vulcan again bolted clear away, past all the other 

 horses. So I felt sure I had found out how to 

 make him go, and to-day if you noticed (which I 

 had not) a boy blew a horn as they passed him 

 and the horse again came away, though the others 

 did their best, and he was giving them from 2 lb. 

 to 4 lb." 



" You certainly have found out how to make 

 him gallop," I said ; " but I don't see how you are 

 always to have a trumpeter about after him." " I 

 think it can be managed," he replied. " I want 

 you to enter him for the Handicap Steeple Stakes 

 at the next meeting. He will only have a feather 

 to carry, and at the time of the race, if you could 

 be with the boy about the T.Y.C. winning-post, and, 

 as the horses come by, tell him to blow, it won't be 

 noticed in the least." 



The horse was duly entered and I performed my 

 part, and he won with consummate ease. The scene 

 afterwards in the Birdcage when I went in to see 

 him weighed was most amusing. Everybody was 

 rushing up to me to find out how he had been 

 treated ; the most wonderful stories were set about 



