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record of the stoutness as well as speed of the race- 

 horse was displayed in 1786, when Mr. Huell's Quib- 

 bler ran twenty-three miles round the flat at New- 

 market in fifty-seven minutes and ten seconds. The 

 speed of the greyhound, and that of the hare, is but 

 little inferior to that of the racehouse, but their 

 powers of endurance at their utmost velocity are not 

 equal to his. 



The racing gallop is evidently but a succession of 

 leaps, in which the forelegs and the hind-legs start in 

 pairs, each pair acting simultaneously. The hand- 

 gallop is not so rapid a movement, in it the right legs 

 are a little in advance of their fellows. It is well 

 ascertained that a horse can never pass at once from 

 a state of rest into the gallop of full speed, but must 

 begin with the hand-gallop; and cunning jockeys 

 sometimes derive profit from this circumstance by 

 wagering with the unwary, that no horse shall be 

 found to gallop one hundred yards while a man runs 

 fifty, the two starting together. In this case the 

 man is sure to win the race, for the horse has not 

 time enough to acquire the necessary momentum, as 

 he would do if the race were for a hundred and fifty 

 yards. 



The following account of a fearful race between a 

 steam engine and a mare is extracted from a number 



