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It is stated that the mare was not in the least distressed : but 

 one knows what that means, where mute animals are concerned, 

 who cannot tell their sufferings, and whose high spirit and in- 

 domitable courage, constantly induce them to die at their work, 

 ratlier than yield to weariness and stop. 



Every sportsman who has ridden a well-bred horse until he 

 stands still, knows that it is a hundred to one that he will lie 

 down in a minute or two, and that, if he do so, the odds are 

 any thing to nothing against his ever standing up again. 



It is true that, in this case, the mare was not seriously or 

 permanently injured, but, to my eyes, this in no degree mitigates 

 the cruelty or lessens the wrong. 



I should like to see such matches made a misdemeanor, and 

 the makers of them punished by incarceration at hard labor. 

 It is such deeds as these that bring sportsmen into odium, and 

 tlie fairest and most useful kinds of sporting into disfavor with 

 men of humane and religious spirit. I shall never cease from 

 protesting against them, and I rejoice to observe the storm of 

 reprobation called forth from the press, universally, by the late 

 yet more reckless and atrocious time match on the public road, 

 in New York. 



No man deserves to own a horse, who would so cruelly and 

 wantonly misuse his powers and impose upon his patient forti- 

 tude. 



