sham looking pretty on paper only knows else far too well for business purposes how on earth can you rack and harry and post a man for his when you are fond of his wife and live in the same station with him he says on the monday following i can t settle just yet you say all right old man and think yourself lucky if you pull nine hundred out of a two thousand debt any way you look at it indian racing is and which is much worse if a man wants your money he ought to ask for it or send round a list instead of about the country with an a with as much breed as the boy a brace of in caps three or four with and a of a mare called the because she has a in her flag racing leads to the quicker than anything else but if you have no conscience and no sentiments and good hands and some knowledge of pace and ten years experience of horses and several thousand a month i believe that you can occasionally contrive to pay your did you ever know � b w g � coarse loose mule like ears � barrel as long as a � tough as a telegraph wire � and the brute that ever looked through a bridle he was of no brand being one of an ear mob taken into the at � a head to make up freight and sold raw and out of condition at for rs people who lost money on him called him a but if ever any horse had s shoulders and the gin s temper was that horse two miles was his own particular distance he trained himself ran himself and rode himself and if his insulted him by giving him hints he shut up at once and the boy off he objected to two or three of his owners did not understand this and lost money in consequence at last he was bought by a man who discovered that if a race was to be won and only would win it in his own way so long as his sat still this man had a riding boy called � a lad from west � and he taught with a s whip the hardest thing a can learn � to sit still to sit still and to keep on sitting still when fairly grasped this truth the country no weight could stop him at his own distance and the fame of spread from in the south to in the north there was no horse like so long as he was allowed to do his work in the his own way but he was beaten in the end and the story of his fall is h to make angels weep at the lower end of the race course just before the turn into the straight the track passes close to a couple of old brick a shaped hollow the big end of the is not six feet from the on the off side the peculiarity of the course is that if you stand at one particular place about half a mile away inside the course and speak at ordinary pitch your voice just the of the brick and makes a curious echo there a i man discovered this one morning by accident while out training with a friend remarked the place to stand and speak from with a couple of bricks and he kept his knowledge to every peculiarity of a course is worth remembering in a country where rats play the mischief with the elephant litter and build to suit their own stables this man ran a very country bred a long high mare with he temper of a and the paces of an airy wandering � a stretch the mare was as a delicate tribute to mrs called the lady � or for short was a quiet well behaved boy but his nerve had been shaken he began his career by riding jump races in where a few want and was one of the who came through the awful � perhaps you will recollect it � of the plate the walls were � logs of into � with wings as strong as church once in his stride a horse had to jump or fall he couldn t run out in the plate twelve horses were at the second wall red hat leading fell this side and threw the broken link out the and the came up behind and the space between wing and wing was one struggling screaming kicking four were taken out dead three were very badly hurt and was among the three he told the story of the plate sometimes and when he described how on red hat said as the mare fell under him � god ha mercy i m done for and how next instant there and white had crushed the life out of poor and the dust hid a small hell of men and horses no one that had dropped jump races and together s owner knew that story by heart never varied it in the telling he had no education came to the autumn races one year and his owner walked about insulting the of generally till they went to the secretary in a body and said � and arrange a race which shall break and humble the pride of his owner the districts rose against and sent up of their best who was supposed to be able to do his mile in the bred trained by a cavalry regiment who knew how to train the lamb of the th the pride of and many others they called that race the broken link because it was to and the piled on the and the fund gave eight hundred and the distance was round the course for all horses owner said � you can arrange the race with 