IjS ON RUNNING HORSES. 



year. At Newmarket, nearly all races are de- 

 termined at one heat, as a meafure of neceflityj 

 from their ufual number and variety. 



The fpeed and continuance of the race-horfes 

 muff neceflarily be affefted and governed, in 

 certain degrees, by the weight which they have 

 to carry; and reafoning upon that pofition, it 

 will be eafily conceived, that if two horfes be 

 equally matched in point of fpeed and flrength, 

 and put to their utmoft exertion for a confider- 

 able diftance, the horfe which carries the lead 

 weight, by even only a fmgle pound, muft in- 

 fallibly have the advantage to a certain degree 

 (however fmall) in the ability of going more 

 fwift and lading longer, than his antagonift. 

 The fwifter the race, and the longer it is con* 

 tinued, the more in proportion will the horfe be 

 affected by the weight he carries. It is faid, that 

 in running four miles, feven pounds make the 

 difference of a diftance, or two hundred and 

 forty yards, between horfes of equal goodnefs. 

 This aflPair of weight is regulated with fcientific 

 precilion upon the turf, and forms a prime con- 

 fideration in all fporting tranfadions. The 

 weights carried by race-horfes vary from the 

 maximum twelve (lone, fourteen pounds to the 

 (lone, to a feather, which means a boy of the 

 lighted weight to be found. 



The thorough-bred courfer, is, in a general 

 point of view, the mod ufeful fpecies of the 



horfe. 



