say a few words on the Bunbury method of training. Sir Charles 

 Biinbury is a philanthropist in the most general sense of the word, and 

 his humanity extends to every thing that lives and feels, most jiarticu- 

 larly to his favourite animal the Horse. It seems to have been his 

 study in Horse-racing, his ardent pursuit, to bound his gratification by 

 justice and fairness to the animal which is the object of it. His Horses 

 are trained \vith such a tender and merciful attention, that their work 

 is never injurious to their health, or too heavy to consist with the full 

 enjoyment of their spirits and their powers. And in racing, he suffers 

 no cruelties with the whip and spur, the very use of which, in fiict, is 

 inhibited to his jockies, excepting on the most palpable occasions of con- 

 stitutional sluggishness and indolence in the Horse ; but never does 

 he allow of cruel cutting, mangling, or goading, on the unjust and absurd 

 plea of probable, customary, or tiuicied use. With the generous feel- 

 ing of a true sportsman, he would say, " I will take my risk with the 

 fair usage of my Horse." Sir Charles prefers short races, as trespassing 

 less on the powers of the animal, and seldom even tries his Horses four 

 miles. He observes, that a gentleman has most gratification in a short 

 race, which he can see from end to end, whereas, the pleasure of a four- 

 mile heat, is chiefly confined to the jockies who ride, and who can 

 have no participators, but at the start and the run-in; over a long course, 

 only at the latter: as an old gentleman once said to me, it is but " There 

 they go," and " Here they come." 



It is objected, that Sir Charles Bunbury does not give his Horses 

 work enough to enable them to run up to their foot over the course. 

 Of this I cannot pretend to judge, not having lately seen the Horses 

 of the honourable baronet in exercise. But of this I am certain, I have 

 formerly been in the habit of seeing Running-horses hurried off their 

 legs, and reduced by exercise, so far below the standard of health and 

 spirits, that it was totally irrational to expect they could retain the ut- 

 most, either of their speed or powers of continuance, under such treat- 

 ment. I adhere to my old opinion, that a i)ortion of flesh had better 

 remain upon the Horse, than be sweated off at the expence of his 

 tinews and his constitutional strength. Besides, a Horse's form ought 



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