OF FARRIERY. 



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In like manner, a Horse belonging to Mr. 

 Qiiin, in 1753, finding his adversary gradually 

 passing him, seized him by the leg, and both 

 riders were obliged to dismount, in order to 

 separate the animals. 



Let us here pause and ask, would the 

 butcherly whipping and cutting which seems 

 so often to form the expected and necessary 

 conclusion of the race ; the supposed display 

 of the skill of the rider ; the exultation of the 

 thoughtless or unfeeling spectator; would 

 these have carried such Horses over one ad- 

 <iitional inch of ground ? In all probability 

 they would have been thrown abroad ; they 

 might have shortened their stroke ; and, per- 

 haps, would have become enraged and have 

 suspended every exertion. We believe it is 

 more to our own interest to behave with con- 

 sideration and kindness to our animals ; for 

 by severity we often defeat the very object we 

 had in view. 



A lady's stud. 



The complement of the stud belonging to 

 the Russian Countess Orloff Tshesmensky, is 

 1320 Horses of Arab, English, and other 

 races. The grounds attached to it amount 

 to 1080 acres ; and the number of grooms 

 • and labourers employed in it are 4399. The 

 sum realized by the sale of these Horses is of 

 considerable annual amount ; and they are 

 sold not only on the spot itself, l)ut in the 

 regular markets, both at St. Petersburgh and 

 Moscow. 



SOCIAL FEELING IN HORSES. 



In a French treatise on Horses, published a 

 few years ago, is the following anecdote, which 

 proves that Horses have social feelings, and 

 thai their healtli may at times be seriously 



benefited by a proper regard to this fact: 

 " A Horse was attacked with an ulcer which 

 resisted all treatment ; he was alone, in a 

 corner, melancholy and sad. By chance a 

 companion arrived. The pleasure which the 

 animal experienced made in him a revolution 

 so sensible, that the ulcer changed its nature 

 and became less inveterate. Tiie sore was 

 now ready to heal when the companion of the 

 sick Horse was taken away. The effect 

 which resulted on the same ulcer was such 

 that it opened anew, and to cure it, it was 

 necessary to bring the other Horse, which pro- 

 duced the most happy revolution, and the 

 perfect cure of the ulcer." 



EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCES. 



In 1772, a mile was run by Fireiali in one 

 minute and four seconds. 



In October, 1741, at the Curragh meeting, 

 in Ireland, Mr. Wilde engaged to ride one 

 hundred and twenty-seven miles in nine 

 hours. He performed it in six hours and 

 twenty-one minutes. He employed ten Horses, 

 and allowing for mounting and dismounting, 

 and a moment for refreshment, he rode for six 

 hours, at the rate of twenty miles an hour. 



Mr. Thornhill, in 1745, exceeded this, for 

 he rode from Stilton to London, being two 

 hundred and thirteen miles, in eleven hours 

 and thirty-four minutes, which is, after allow- 

 ing the least possible time for changing Horses, 

 twenty miles an hour for eleven hours, and on 

 the uneven ground of the turnpike road. 



Mr. Shaftoe, in 1762, with ten Horses, and 

 five of them ridden twice, accomplished fifty 

 miles and a quarter, in one hour and forty 

 nine minutes. In 1763, Mr. Shaftoe won a 

 more extraordinary match. He was to pro- 

 cure a person to ride one hundred miles a day, 

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