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exception of the light weights, adopted by us for convenience, 

 the modes and rules of our turf are nearly the same as they 

 were in England the last century. In England, since that 

 period, the mode of racing has been essentially changed ; heavy 

 weights, even for two and three-year-olds, at short distances, 

 rarely beyond two and a half miles ; no longer races of heats ; 

 the great events being for " baby horses," two and three-year- 

 olds, instead of horses^ as formerly. They rarely, nowadays, 

 reach maturity in England. Priam, Touchstone, Harkaway, 

 and Rataplan, are to be regarded as exceptions to a rule. Chil- 

 ders and Eclipse were not introduced upon the turf until five 

 years old, an age at which the most distinguished horses rarely 

 run in these days. 



The elastic turf and the straighter shape of the English race- 

 courses, better adapt them to speed than our circular " race- 

 tracks," that are wholly denuded of turf. Therefore a fair com- 

 parison of English and American race-horses cannot be made 

 by time as the test ; one, too, that is not held in as high esteem 

 in England as with us. Time, there, is frequently disregarded. 



Rather a long catalogue is here presented of the best race- 

 horses of England and of this country, which might be extended. 

 Those now or lately upon our turf are omitted, as some doubts 

 might be entertained of their comparative merits. Of those 

 furnished, who will agree as to the pre-eminence of any two of 

 them ; at least, to place any six above the rest ? 



MOST RENOWlSrED ENGLISH AND AMERICAN H0ESE8* 



1715* Childers. 



1718* Partner. 



1748* Matchem. 



1749* Regulus, ) by the Go- 



1749 Mirza, \ dolphin Arabian. 



1749* Spectator. 



1750* Snap. 



1758* Herod. 



1764* Eclipse, by Marske. 



1771* Shark, by Marske. 



1773* Pot8os, by Eclipse. 



* Saltram, by Eclipse. 



1777*t Diomed. 



1782t Trumpator. 



1784t Sir Peter. 



1790t Waxy. 



1792t Hambletonian, 



179 6t Sorcerer. 



1798t Eleanor. 



17981 Orville. 



1807t Whalebone. 



1816 Sultan. 



1822 Camel. 



1827t Priam, by Emilius.t 



Boston's ancestors. 



+ Derby and 8t. Leger winners. 



