THE SPORTING WORLD. 259 



died after a severe ran with the foxhounds. 



I can fancy I hear them say, "A great favour- 

 ite he must have been to be treated thus," or 

 some such sarcastic expression. I should be 

 the first to abhor the savage who would, as 

 the term goes, "ride his horse to death," or 

 brutalize a tired a horse to see the finish of 

 the most exciting run that hounds ever went ; , 

 nor is it to be inferred that such conduct is 

 common among sportsmen. Let me assure those 

 who do not know as much of horses as myself 

 that such casualty, as the one mentioned, may 

 occur without the horse having shewn any pre- 

 vious symptoms of particular distress. When 

 such catastrophe occurs, which it sometimes does 

 after the horse has got home, it usually pro- 

 ceeds from the after effects of exertion; nor is 

 it any sure indication of the animal having 

 suffered, or having been improperly ridden during 

 the run. When it occurs during a chase it is 



usually from some of the internal machinery of 

 r2 



