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THE RACEHORSE AS HE WAS AND IS. 



the horses under our charge running not only once or twice 

 but twenty or thirty times a year, and we are also expected 

 to have them fit each and every time, and looking like satin. 

 Again, formerly, there were in the year only about 400 

 horses to contend against, and very few, if any, foreign 

 horses. Now, how vastly increased do wc find the numbers. 

 According to Messrs. Weatherby's " Racing Calendar " for 

 races past (1878) we see no less than 2,097 horses running 

 in 1,699 races, exclusive of horses that run only for hurdle 

 races and hunter races on the flat. The whole is given in 

 an interesting form in the two tables at foot.^ It should be 



1 Table No. i . 

 Table showing the number of horses of different ages that have run in the 

 undermentioned years : — 



The Irish horses are not included prior to 1849. In 1843, 113 horses ran in the 

 Iri.sh races reported in the Tuigli^h Racing Calendar. .Since the autumn of 1867, 



