AND THE TURF. IQ5 



raced at that early period ; but at three years 

 old, it is full time to afcertain the probable 

 worth of the racer. Of courfe, phyfic and ex- 

 ercife, proportionally mild, and light weights, 

 are indicated for this young and tender flock. 

 The charge for training a race-horfe, formerly 

 a guinea, is now, I underftand, twenty-five (hil- 

 lings per week. A full account of all public 

 races, pad and to come, of ftallions to cover, of 

 horfes for fale, and of the general concerns of 

 the turf, it is well known, is to be found in 

 Weatherby's Sporting Calendar. The oldeft 

 account of racing tranfaftions, with which I am 

 acquainted, is to be found in a colleftion pub- 

 liflied about the year 1758 ; the retrofpe6l ex- 

 tends as far as the middle of Anne's reig-n. 

 There is alfo a book extant, publifhed a few 

 years fince by Mr. Stubbs, fliewing the pedi- 

 grees of all racers of note for the lall fifty 

 years. 



It is notorious that a number of gentlemen-, 

 at different periods, have greatly injured their 

 fortunes by their tranfaftions upon the turf; 

 and indeed the commerce of gambling hath this 

 unfavourable difference from commerce pro- 

 perly fo called, that whereas in the latter, all 

 parties are benefitted ; in the former, fome muft 

 inevitably lofe, and the fpeculators in confe- 

 quence prey one upon the other. Gamblino- 

 then, of all kinds, had much better be looked 



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