A TREATIS E, 



CHAPTER I. 



ON THE STABLES, ETC. 



When horse-racing first commenced in this country 

 I imagine it must have been introduced by noblemen 

 and gentlemen of fortune, who kept their race-horses 

 as they did their hounds, as a part of their sporting 

 establishment, and who occasionally ran them for 

 different public prizes, as much probably for the 

 amusement it afforded, as for the value or honor of 

 the prize they might win. I believe there are some 

 Jew noblemen and gentlemen, who still maintain their 

 racing studs nluch upon the above mentioned princi- 

 ples ; but if we take a view of horse-racing upon the 

 general scale of the present day, we shall find that it 



