THE TURF. 
Lord Lowther, where Partisan, and a large number of 
brood mares, are kept the latter working daily on the 
farm, which is said to be advantageous to them. Within 
a few miles we have Lower Hare Park, the seat of 
Sir Mark Wood, with Upper Hare Park, General 
Grosvenor's, &c. The stables of Newmarket are not 
altogether so good as we should expect to find them. 
Of the public ones, perhaps those of Robinson, Edwards, 
Stephenson, and Webb, are the best. 
That noble gift of Providence, the horse, has not 
been bestowed upon mankind without conditions. The 
first demand upon us is to treat him well ; but, to avail 
ourselves of his full powers and capacity, we must take 
him out of the hands of nature, and place him in those 
of art ; and no one can look into old works published on 
this subject, without being surprised with the change 
that has taken place in the system of training the race- 
horse. "The Gentleman's Recreation," published nearly 
a century and a half back, must draw a smile from the 
modern trainer, when he reads of the quackery to which 
the race-horse was then subject a pint of good sack 
having been one of his daily doses. Again, " The British 
Sportsman," by one Squire Osbaldiston, of days long 
since gone by, gravely informs its readers, that one 
month is necessary to prepare a horse for a race ; but 
"if he be very fat or foul, or taken from grass," he 
might require two. This wiseacre has also his juleps 
and syrups "enough to make a horse sick" indeed 
finishing with the whites of eggs and wine, internally 
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