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therefore when once the horse that is set to do the work is 
fairly exhausted, the other should carry on the running: or 
how can his condition and gameness tell? The two best 
paces I think I ever remember seeing, were in the Goodwood 
Cup and the Cesarewitch. In the first Schzsm started to 
assist Promised Land, and Woodburn to do the same office for 
his stable companion Priovess. The American horse started 
at the top of his speed, but was not fast enough to make the 
pace which Schism did, Promised Land lying a length from 
the second horse until a mile from home, when he took up 
the running, was never headed, and won in a common canter. 
In the Czsarewitch, K7//igrew made the running for a mile, 
when Du/cibella, who laid second until passing the ditch-gap, 
took it up some 100 yards ahead of all the rest and won ina 
trot. In another case, for the Emperor's Vase at Ascot, Foe 
Miller took the lead and was never headed. 
But this is a matter connected rather with the race itself 
than with the trial—to return to which I should observe 
that there are, in long courses, many fortuitous circum- 
stances worthy of note. One horse, for example, may get 
an advantage at the start ; this is usually little thought of, 
nevertheless the lost ground has to be made up by his 
opponents. Others, again, may lose ground at the turns, 
or lie out of it, or be ridden to a standstill; in point of 
fact, from any one of these causes, the winner in a trial 
may be the worst of the lot, and the trial a farce. The 
mistakes made in trials are not only marvellous, but of 
everyday occurrence. I cannot see why they should be so, 
If you take for your trial horse one that has lately run 
in public (which should always be the case), so that his 
form at the time may be accurately known, and have 
another to gauge his running, I can hardly see what mistakes 
