AND THE TURF. SOJ 



hoiTe; and Bracken has faid, that by proper 

 training, he could enable even a cart-horle to 

 run up to his foot. 



A remarkable quality in the race-horfe, is, 

 that which is ftyled in the language of the turf, 

 running to the whip ; it means anfwering every 

 ftroke of the whip with an additional exertion, 

 as long as nature lafts. Horfes of this generous 

 kind are termed " honeft," and " (lout ; but 

 the terms are ufually confounded, for many a 

 horfe is honed, without being endowed with 

 thofe conftitutional powers neceflary to pro- 

 duce ftoutnefs or continuance ; and many which 

 pofTefs thofe in the amplefl meafure, which they 

 occafionally evince, are yet never to be depend- 

 ed upon. It is dangerous to offend thefe laft- 

 with the immoderate ufe of the whip or fpur, 

 and I have known a winning horfe flopped 

 inftantly by a foul cut under his flanks ; I have 

 alfo known, and indeed ridden horfes, honefl: 

 and flout as the courfe was long, yet with fuch 

 indignant ftomachs, and fuch critical (kill in 

 their own powers, that being convinced in a 

 race, of the impoflibility of fuccefs, if abufed 

 with the whip, they would inftantly fliorten 

 their ftrpke ; but if nurfed, and encouraged 

 with a pull, the ufe of which every jockey 

 knows, would, although beaten, drain every 

 nerve to the laft extremity. It is a ftrange 

 quality in the true whipped horfe, that he feems 



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