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both. The most that can be done is to furnish general 

 principles, the application of which to particular cases is to 

 be left to the judgment of the individual. Ripton, of all the 

 horses that I have ever had, was one of those that required 

 the most work. He was so resolute and game, and his spirits 

 were so high, that, if not kept down by a good deal of steady 

 work, he was almost certain to run away as soon as he was 

 suffered to go fast. With the work most horses require, he 

 would have been almost or quite unmanageable. It was so 

 when George Youngs had him in his youth ; and it was so 

 still in his old age, when he was broken down and had been 

 withdrawn from the turf There was no vice about the 

 little horse ; but the exuberance of his spirits was such, when 

 he was at all indulged, that he would run away out of mere 

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