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in 1738, but if he did he was running and win- 

 ning, carrying twelve stones. He won, in 

 short, every time that he started in this year. 

 In 1741 he won at Chester, at Manchester, and 

 at Hereford. In 1742, he received a £15 

 premium seven gears consecutively. 



The following extract is taken from an ac- 

 count of a horse called the Carlisle gelding: 

 " He had no rival in carrying all degrees of 

 weight in supporting repeated heats, travelling 

 and constant running, and this maintained to 

 an age seldom heard of. 



" Johnny, a horse of a more recent period, 

 won or received forfeit twenty-five times ! 



"Mark Antony started twenty-eight times, 

 and won twenty." 



This account of the running of our older 

 horses is interesting, because every one ac- 

 quainted with our present race-horse knows that 

 none of them could perform a fourth part of 

 these tasks without breaking down. We see, 

 indeed, the best horses, at the present day, 

 after winning a race of only two miles, dis- 

 abled from ever running again. 



If, after reading these extracts from Mr, 

 Smith's work, the reader will look at the por- 



