SUPERIORITY OF MODERN RACERS. 



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Black Chance is suggested, in consequence of their having been 

 bronght forward as specimens of snperioritj over any horses of 

 the modern days." 



It will be seen by the table alluded to, and here subjoined, 

 that the five modern horses have in every respect the advan- 

 tage. They began to train from two to four years younger ; 

 they ran more races, and more miles, and — with one exception — 

 they saw more years service on the turf, than the worthies of 

 the olden time. 



This, added to the above record of stock, ought to settle the 

 question. 



"Persons who are conversant with racing are well aware 

 that it is impossible to form decided opinions concerning the 

 superiority of horses, without running them in public, or trying 

 them in private, with the most scrupulous exactness. As it is 

 impossible to form positive opinions of contemporaneous horses 

 till they have been tried, it would be ridiculous to hazard 

 an opinion on the merits of horses in a race of any given dis- 

 tance of the early part of the last century, as compared with 

 those of modern days, unless there appeared to be a vast dis- 

 parity between them. Considering the points at issue, there is 

 no difficulty in deciding on the majority of those qualities, 

 which give evidence of stoutness, endurance, constitutional 



* Did not run in the years 1720, 1726, or 1726. 

 f Did not run in 1743. 



