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THE MODERN SYSTEM 



Sir John Moore, Bart, at ten guineas. In 

 1774 his price arose to twenty-five guineas, 

 at which it remained till his death, which 

 happened May 12, 1783, in the 22d year of 

 his age. He was so shamefully neglected in 

 his latter days, and his body so encrusted with 

 dung and filth, that, it is said, the immediate 

 cause of his death was a mortification in his 

 sheath. Many much later instances are known 

 of covering Stallions neglected in a similar way, 

 and a famous son of Herod, exhausted by ex- 

 cess of covering, died after three days pro- 

 tracted agonies. George IV, when Prince of 

 Wales, formerly allowed the breeders of the 

 vicinity to his residence in Hants, the use of a 

 well-bred Stallion gratis, excepting the groom's 

 fee of a crown. The consequence of which 

 was, the exhaustion of the animal. So many 

 mares were sent that it was impossible for 

 Nature to support the continued demand for 

 one individual to perform, with any chance of 

 a successful progeny. The Horse often co- 

 vered, or attempted to cover, twelve mares 

 in one day. The stock of which animal was 

 the most wretched, puny, spindle-shanked 

 animals to be imagined. Facts like the.se 

 should be published, and kept alive in the 

 memories of those who may wish to profit 

 from this information. 



BLEEDING GUILDERS. 



Bleeding Childers, so called from his fre- 

 quent bleedings at the nose, afterwards called 

 Young Childers, and finally Bartlet's Childers, 

 was full brother to Flying Childers. He was 

 never trained, but proved a superior stallion 

 even to his brother ; and the high character 

 in that respect which we have awarded to the 

 elder brother, we intend as divisible between 

 the two The Hampton Court Childers, sire 



of Blacklegs, was son of the Devonshire 

 Childers. There were in all, six nearly con- 

 temporary racers and stallions of the name of 



Childers. 



JUPITER. 



Jupiter was a son of Eclipse out of the 

 Tartar m.ire, which, by the same Horse, also 

 bred Venus, Adonis, and some others runners 

 of inferior note. Jupiter was fifteen hands 

 one inch high, and like most of the .sons of 

 Eclipse, of great bone and substance. He had 

 also a considerable, if not a capital share of 

 that speed which characterized the Eclipse 

 blood. Speed was his best, to make use of 

 the old Turf phrase, and he had enough of it 

 to enable him to win at Lewes, at three years 

 old, the eight hundred guineas, a mile race, 

 against six others ; and the same year, at 

 Newmarket, a mile race also, one thousand 

 guineas, beating seven others ; and three 

 hundred guineas, at Ncvvmarket, from tlie 

 Ditch-in (upwards of a mile and half) beating 

 eight others. He never won a four mile race, 

 or, as it is called, over the course, and broke 

 down in 1779, being five years old, at New- 

 market, in the October Meeting, running for 

 the Weights and Scales Plate of eighty 

 guineas, over the B. C. or Beacon Course of 

 four miles. 



No longer able to serve his proprietor upon 

 the course, but the date of his services, in all 

 probability, curtailed by that injudicious se- 

 verity of training to which our grooms are so 

 infatuated, Jupiter was consequently with- 

 drawn in the following season to the Breeding 

 Stud. 



It is melancholy to consider how many good 

 Horses have been sacrificed to over-training. 

 It is surely better to leave some superfluous 



