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taught horses, increased velocity was obtained ; 

 for a lady seated on the rump of a horse 

 would have been, had a canter been perpetrated, 

 in about as enviable a situation as if seated on 

 the stern of a vessel in a rough sea. 



Hunting was, in those days, a very different 

 thing to what it has been for the last fifty years 

 or far more. Blood was not then the desidera- 

 tum in the hunting horse. Cock-tailed horses 

 and cocked hats were then both seen together 

 in the hunting field, and on the road the 

 sturdy hack, if safe enough, was sure to be fast 

 enough. Thus, such horses as we now possess, 

 not being wanted for, indeed not suited to, 

 ordinary purposes, the beneficial influence of the 

 patronisers of the turf was not felt as it 

 now is. 



Independent of this, the number of race horses 

 then kept was not, I should say, more than 

 as one to fifty, and the thorough bred sires 

 still less in proportion. It is true both King 



