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barbarities at this hour committed upon Horses in the common business 

 of life, are a thousand-fold greater than any which ever took place upon 

 the course, in the most barbarous times, and yet those pass unheeded by 

 many who are the loudest in decrying the cruelty of horse-matching. 

 If Thames-street, the post-roads, and the theatre of the labours of those 

 exquisive objects of misery, worn-out Horses sold to slaughter, could be 

 reformed, we might very well compromise our feelings and our solici- 

 tude on the score of trotting and galloping matches. 



By a reference to the Racing Calendar, it appears, that horses-races 

 are held annually, or oftener, at about four-score different places in 

 England, exclusive of Newmarket, where are seven annual meetings, 

 namely, the Craven, the First and Second Spring, the July, the First and 

 Second October, and the Houghton Meeting. The sport at Newmarket 

 generally commences on Monday, and continues until the following 

 Thursday, Friday, or Saturda}^, and races are determined by a single 

 heat ; in some respects, indeed, as matter of necessity, where so much 

 business is to be dispatched. There are nineteen Royal Plates givea 

 in England. 



In Wales horse-races are annually celebrated in five different places. 

 In Scotland, six places enjoy that privilege; in Ireland, thirteen. There 

 are two Royal Plates given in Scotland, and ten in Ireland, exclusive of 

 a Plate of one hundred guineas, given by the Lord Lieutenant. Seven 

 ofthe Royal Plates are run for over the Kurragh of Kildare. In Ireland, 

 the number of race-courses have nearly doubled within the last thirty 

 years, in consequence, the breed of Running-horses must have increased. 

 The same may be said of Scotland and Wales, but in an inferior de- 

 gree; indeed, few traces now exist, of that excessive attachment to the 

 Horse-course, which several centuries past prevailed among the Scots. 



In the United States of America, the inhabitants are sufficiently in- 

 clined to this sport, and have, for the space of many years, been in the 

 habit of importing Horses ti-om this country; but they do not yet ap- 

 pear to have made any progress in establishing a thorough racintr breed. 

 Our East and West-India colonies have either occasional i:»r regular 

 horse-races, but the heat of those climates must be unfriendly to the 

 sport. In Italy, the turf is burlesqued by races with small horses in the 



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