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Frampton's " slow good ones," of which I inherited 

 his opinion. This by way of advice to fresh men. 

 The only use of this sort is adverted to above, with 

 those that also fail to win, but from the opposite cause. 

 Subsequently, quarter and half mile races became 

 somewhat frequent at Newmarket ; and there had 

 been, during some years previous, a two year old 

 course, to which afterwards, a yearling course was 

 added, with also the practice, of late years and at 

 present, so common, of training and racing the young 

 stock. Remarkable examples of attachment to long- 

 races and the B. C. were constantly exhibited at 

 Newmarket in old times. 



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My next topic is a disheartening one; it is the hor- 

 rible, and I have some right to know, as a i bit of a 

 jockey/ useless and needless practice of butchering 

 and cutting up racehorses alive, with the whip and 

 spur ! In aggravation and countenance of this bar- 

 barism the spectators of the run in, even ladies, seem 

 delighted with it, as the very marrow and cream of 

 the sport ; and we often witness, in the accounts of 

 races, the columns of newspapers sullied with such 

 filth as — " a slashing race, what whipping, cutting, 

 and spurring!" Certainly there are stout and slug- 

 gish horses which require to be reminded by the 

 whip and spur, but even those, running against others, 

 their natural emulation is stimulated, and they will 

 do their utmost with moderate excitement, and all 

 the whipping and spurring that could be used, even 

 by that butcher on horseback, old Jack Oakley, must 



