170 THE HOKSE. 



about whom little is certainly known beyond her own stables, 

 going abroad — hopeless of finding matches at home — to take a 

 rise out of the English cracks, calculating of course on the im- 

 mense allowances, which will not fall short, under some contin- 

 gencies, of 14 pounds advantage given to foreign bred and 

 untried horses. 



Many persons believe now, of these horses, as they did of 

 Peytona, tliat nothing that ever was in the North ever saw the 

 day when it could beat these horses ; and that nothing in Eng- 

 land ever will see that day. 



I am not one of those persons. 



The end is not yet, and fast time or slow time, I do not be- 

 lieve altogether in light weights and fast courses ; but, I do be- 

 lieve, all things fully weighed and considered, with no preju- 

 dice or favor for JSTorthern or Southern stables, that Boston ia 

 out and out the best race-horse of any age, sex or condition, that 

 has yet run upon American plates, and that Fashion is the best 

 mare. 



That the American horses will win in England, at the extra- 

 ordinary advantages, which they will receive, I think probable ; 

 and not much to brag of, if they do. One may handicap 

 Eclipse so that a jackass will beat him, and 28 lbs. is a difference^ 

 with a vengeance, on a horse's back. 



The clever accounts subjoined of the most recent races, are 

 from the ITew Orleans Picayune, but quoted from the Spirit of 

 the Times. 



