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Flying ChiMers, Eclipse, Bay Malton, Ginicrack, Mambrino, &c., 

 the racehorses were not commonly trained until they were five 

 years old. They then ra i long heats under heavy weights and 

 lasted four or five years, sometimes more. Now they are almost 

 all galloped as yearlings, run as two-year olds, and the great ma- 

 jority never see the race-course after they are three or four. Thia 

 is the system which Admiral Rous upholds and applauds, and de- 

 clares to be an absolute necessity. His authority is deemed very 

 great, and therefore I will quote it against himself. He has 

 often declared that Bay Middleton was the best horse that ran in 

 England in the present century. Well, would you believe that 

 this best horse of so many thousands was never trained or run as 

 a two-year old at all? It was just the same with Glencoe, Mid- 

 dleton, Mameluke, &c.. belonging to the same owner. Moreover, 

 Sir Joseph Ilawley, and other experienced and able turfmen of 

 England are opposed to the Admiral on this point. He has, to be 

 sure, his supporters ; they are, first, breeders who want to sell 

 plenty of yearlings at high prices, and who know that the sooner 

 they are worn out the belter for them ; second, public trainers 

 WHO like to have a great many in their stables : third, crack jockies 

 who makes thousands of dollars extra every year by riding two- 

 year old races 5 fourth, betting men, who care no more for the 

 horse himself, as a race horse, than they do for the gipsies' 

 donkeys in the lanes and on the commons. He is to them a 

 medium for betting and nothing else, just as the trotter of this 

 country is to people of a certain class ; and upon any subject re- 

 lating to the well-being of the horse as a breed, and the utility, 

 or otherwise, of some practices to which he is exposed, they ought 

 not to be listened to for a moment. By winning the money of 

 foolish and ignorant people they can do but little harm. By 

 cheating one another they can do none at all. But if it be con- 

 ceded that their interests shall prevail in the decision of questions 

 affecting the status of horse-racing and the stamina and stal ility 

 of the racc-hors( . we shall soon see the reaping of a perilous and 



