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The youngsters may not have felt all this emulation, nor be disposed pain- 

 fully to exert their energies to the very utmost ; and it may be necessary 

 necessary, in order to accomplish the purpose of the owner by winning the race 

 that the poor animal should be brutally urged on, until the powers of nature 

 fail, and he retires from the course a cripple for life. 



This is a necessary part of the system. It is accounted the duty of the rider 

 it is a duty on the skilful discharge of which a few of them plume them- 

 selves : but it is that which should not be tolerated, and the system of which 

 it is a necessary part should undergo a speedy and an effectual reformation*. 



We have been enabled to place at the head of our chapter a portrait of 

 " The Colonel," taken for this work, by Mr. Harvey ; and Mr. Goodwin, 

 veterinary surgeon to the Queen, has kindly furnished us with a considerable 

 part of the following account of him and of Fleur-de-Lis : 



He was a chesnut horse, fifteen hands three inches high, with good substance, 

 capital legs and feet, and true action, bred by Mr. Petre in 1825. He was 

 got by Whisker out of a Delphini mare her dam, Tipple Cider, by King 

 Fergus the grandam was Sylvia, by Young Marsk, out of Ferret, by a 

 brother to Sylvio-Regulus, &c. 



He came out in 1827, when he won the two-years stakes, beating Kitty, a 

 colt by Trump, and a black colt by Whisker. 



In the same year he carried off the two-years old stakes at Pontefract, beating 

 Vanish ; and the Champagne stakes at Doncaster, beating a filly by Blackleg. 



In 1828 he ran a dead heat with Cadland for the Derby, beating Zingaree 

 and twelve others, but he lost the second heat. He won however the St. Leger 

 at Doncaster, beating Belinda, Velocipede, and seventeen others ; and walked 

 over for the 200 sovereigns stakes at the same placet. 



In 1829 he was beaten at the York Spring Meeting, by Bessy Bedlam, in 

 a match for 300 sovereigns each the St. Leger course. He started, but was 

 not placed, for the gold cup at Ascot, being beaten by Zingaree and Mameluke. 



In 1830 he won the Craven stakes of ten sovereigns each, beating Harold, 

 Clio, and eight others. He ran second for the gold cup at Ascot, being beaten 

 by Loretta, but beating Greenmantle and Zingaree. In the same year he 

 won a sweepstake at Stockbridge ; and ran third for the gold cup at Goodwood, 

 but was beaten by Fleur-de-Lis and Zingaree. 



In 1831 he won the Craven stakes at Epsom ; and ran a dead heat with 

 Mouch for the Oatlands at Ascot ; but running the second heat with her, he 



* In a former edition of this work, the the whip, the excess of it must necessarily 



protest of the author was entered against the shorten his stride, and, in course, detract 



barbarous and useless punishment to which from his speed. Many a race has been lost 



some horses were subjected. He has great by a foul cut, or a brutal use of the spur 



pleasure in recording the following confirma- either by damping the spirit and enfeebling 



tion of his opinion : " There are many the nerve of the horse, or inducing a sullen 



jockeys employed by the inferior black-leg disgust and desperation. An example much 



species of sportsmen, and even some of a talked of at the time, and through which a 



higher class, who will not be convinced that vast sum of money was lost, occurred in the 



a rider has acted honestly, unless his horse is case of a horse of old Duke William, which 



nearly dissected alive ; but, in the strongest was nearly home and winning. He received 



probability, every drop of blood drawn is a foul cut with the whip on a tender part, and 



utterly unnecessary, as it is barbarous and instantly hung back and lost the race. With 



contrary to the very idea of sport, in which respect to the hot-spirited and washy horses, 



even the horse himself ought to share. Such if they cannot win without the aid of the whip, 



an opinion was given from the heart, as well they will seldom win with it." Nimrod. 

 as from the mature judgment of the late Sir f At the latter end of 1828 he was sold 



Thomas Charles Bunbury, within a few months by Mr. Petre to George IV. for 4000 guineas, 



of his decease, after five-and-fifty years of He continued, however, on the turf, and won 



experience on the most extensive scale. Al- many races, 

 though the stout and game horse will run to 



