220 TffE HORSE. 



ever any horse distressed, according to the report of his perform- 

 ance. Secondly, what is the meaning of the word usually, in 

 reference to an event never accomplished before. 



Lastly, I would say, that if this unhappy horse were bled, as 

 it is stated he was, the bleeding was in all probability the im- 

 mediate cause of his death. In such cases, nine times out of ten, 

 exhaustion, not plethory, is the result of such efforts as this ; 

 and in this case, every thing indicates that the animal was so 

 totally overdone and outworn, that the whole system collapsed, 

 and that nature failed in recuperative power. In such a case, 

 to take one drop of blood would be as surely fatal as to blow 

 out the creature's brains. A drench of hot, spiced ale, followed 

 by mashes, and a cordial ball of camphor, condiments, &c., &c., 

 would have been far more rational treatment. Nothing, how- 

 ever, could probably have done any good ; the rather as he was 

 an old horse ; nor, probably, had he recovered, would it have 

 done him any good, as in all human likelihood his savage pro- 

 prietors would have backed him, the next week, to trot 100 

 miles in eight hours and a half, and so driven him to death any 

 how. 



It is to be wished that sporting periodicals, instead of herald- 

 ing these things " as wonderful performances," which leads un- 

 thinking persons to regard them as something very line and 

 worthy of imitation, would either record them f)s unsportsman- 

 like acts of cruelty, worthy only of costermongers and the low 

 fancy, or let them go wholly unrecorded. 



I omitted above to mention, in its proper place, the extraor- 

 dinary trot of Kemble Jackson, the ch. stallion, whose pedigree 

 was given in the history of the events of 1852. It is as follows ; 



Wednesday, June 1. — Purse and stake, $4,000 — three-mile lieats — to 250 lb. wagons. 



H. Woodruffs ch. h. Kemble Jackson, .11 



W. S. Abraham's b. g. O'l 



J. Nelson's br. m. Boston Girl, . . .58 



H. Jones's b. g. Pet, . . . . 8 4 



C. Brooks's b. m. Tola, . . ..45 



S. Spicer's b. g. Honest John, . . . 6 6 



FIKST HEAT. 



Time— first mile, 2.41 



" second " .... 2.89J 



" third " 2.421 



Total time, . . . 8.08 



SECOND HEAT. 



Time— first mile, 2.41 



" second " 2.39 



third " 2.44i 



ToUltime, . . . 8.04J 



