THE TURP. 
was made desolate, the Sicyonians being permitted to 
celebrate them until Corinth was again inhabited ; and 
it is certain that, during the embarrassments, privations, 
and panics to which England has been exposed during 
the last twenty years, racing, particularly country- 
racing, has progressively increased, and in many respects 
improved. 
We believe it is admitted, that in no country in the 
world do people ride with so daring a spirit as in the 
little island of Great Britain, and particularly in our 
Leicestershire hunts. But riding over a country, and 
race-riding, if they must be called sister-arts, are diverse 
tamen, it being well known that many of our first- 
rate jockeys (Buckle among the number, who often 
attempted it) have made a poor appearance after hounds. 
On the turf, however, as on the field, our gentlemen 
"delighting in horses" have, from old time, been for- 
ward to exhibit their prowess 
" Smit with the love of the laconic boot, 
The cap and wig succinct, the silken suit ; " 
though we take it that it was not until the Bibury and 
Kingscote meetings that gentleman-jockey ship arrived 
at perfection in England. It is beyond a doubt that 
there were gentlemen-jockeys at that time almost, if 
not quite, equal to the professional artists, and a few of 
them in nearly as high practice in the saddle. Amongst 
these first-rate hands were, the present Duke of Dorset 
and George Germaine, his brother ; Lords Charles 
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