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THE HORSE. 



The }io-se is as susceptible of pleasure and pain as ourselves. He was 

 coinmilied to us for our protection and our use ; he is a willing, devotee* 

 servant. Whence did we derive the right to abuse him ? Interest speaks 

 the same language : many a race has been lost by the infliction of wanton 

 cruelty-* 



THE HUNTER. 



There are few agriculturists who have not a little liking for the sports of 

 the field, and who do not fancy rich music in the cry of the hounds. To 

 what extent it may be prudent for them to indulge in these sports circum- 

 stances must decide, and they deserve the most serious consideration. 

 Few can, or, if they could, ought to keep a hunter. There are tempta- 

 tions to expense in the field, and to expense after the chase, which it may 

 be difficult to withstand. The hunter, however, or the hunting horse, 



♦ One of the severest plate-races on record, was run at Carlisle, in 1761, and in which 

 there were no fewer than six heats, and two of them were dead heats, each of which was 

 contested by the winner of the.plate. 



In 1763 at Salisbury, and over a four-mile course, there were four heats between two 

 horses, the Duke of Grafton's Havana and Mr. Wildman's Pam. 



The following- table of the abbreviations used in dcsig-nating- the different courses at 

 Newmarket, and the length of these courses, may not be unnacceptable. 



A Dista:nce is the leng-th of two hundred and forty yards from the winiiincf post. In 

 the pallery of the winning post, and in a little pallery at the di.stanco pi .-i are placed two 

 men holding crimwon flags. As soon as the the first horse has passed the winning post, tba 



