2 THE TURF 



it was left for later times to display, to per- 

 fection, the full powers of the race-horse. 

 The want of stirrups alone must have been 

 a terrible want. With the well-caparisoned 

 war-horse, or the highly finished cheval 

 crecok) even in his gallopade, capriole, or 

 balotade, the rider may sit down upon his 

 twist, and secure himself in his saddle by 

 the clip which his thighs and knees will 

 afford him ; but there is none of that 

 (pbstando) resisting power about his seat 

 which enables him to contend with the 

 race-horse in his gallop. We admit that 

 a very slight comparison can be drawn 

 between the race-horse of ancient and that 

 of modern days ; but whoever has seen the 

 print of the celebrated jockey, John Oakley, 

 on Eclipse the only man, by the way, who 

 could ride him well will be convinced that, 

 without the fulcrum of stirrups, he could not 

 have ridden him at all ; as, from the style in 

 which he ran, his nose almost sweeping the 

 ground, he would very soon have been pulled 

 from the saddle over his head. 



Of the training and management of the 

 Olympic race-horse we are unfortunately left 

 in ignorance all that can be inferred being 



