THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 63 



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

 but little inferior to that of the racehorse, 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 fore-legs 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 

 of the Ipswich Express, for January, 1846: "An 

 occurrence, approaching the wonderful in its nature, 

 took place on the Colchester end of the Eastern 

 Counties Railway, early on the morning of Sunday 

 the 4th instant. A mare, the property of Mr. Garrad, 

 whose farm adjoins the railway and its Colchester 



