THE TURF. 
pense be made to such as are not, we have nothing 
further to say on that score ; but we should be sorry 
that the too frequent repetition of such practices should 
put the farmers out of temper, and thus prove hurtful 
to fox-hunting. We may also take the liberty to 
remark, that one human life and several good horses 
have already been the penalty of this rather unreason- 
able pastime ; and that, from the pace the horses must 
travel at, considerable danger to life and limb is always 
close at hand.* What are called hurdle-races are still 
more absurd, by blending the qualifications of the race- 
horse with the hunter, at a time of the year very unfit 
for the experiment. 
In Scotland, racing is progressing steadily, and in 
very good hands in those chiefly of Lords Kelburne, 
Elcho, and Eglinton, Sir James Boswell, General 
Sharpe, and Mr. Ramsay. The crack man is Sir James 
Boswell, to whose honourable name no less than a dozen 
horses appeared in the calendar, amongst them General 
Chasse, the best country horse that has been out for 
some time. Lord Kelburne is an extensive breeder, 
and had in his stud those celebrated horses Actaeon, now 
the property of his majesty, and Jerry, by Smolensko, 
a winner of the Doncaster St. Leger. The principal 
meeting in Scotland is the Caledonian Hunt Meeting, 
at which there are a king's plate of one hundred. 
* We recommend the uninitiated, who wish to have some notion of a 
steeple-chace, to study an admirable set of prints on that subject lately 
published, after drawings by the Hogarth of the chace, Mr. Alken. 
