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chosen name, but, on the contrary, everything to dis- 

 courage it. 



As I have said, there are plenty of names--the 

 supply is almost inexhaustible — which may readily 

 be chosen within the limit of fen fetters that will 

 do credit to any selection, and at the same time be- 

 come a pleasing, not to say complimenitary, episode 

 of both colonial and international recognition. 



I suggest that the names of our race-horses — ani- 

 mals that are prized in some respects, without sense 

 of humiliationi, as highly as are the claims of some 

 members of the human species — should be named 

 after places, suitable in point of selection, in the 

 British colonies, in the Indian Empire, and in that 

 part of the Western world graced by the presence 

 of our American kinsmen. 



Let those, therefore, in search of a name for their 

 horses honor themselves, as they will honor British 

 enterprise and the friends of Great Britain over the 

 seas, by the simple expedient of casting their eye 

 over the index of any good atlas, when they will 

 see before them, in those countries to which I have 

 referred, thousands of names, providing at once all 

 that need be desired to afford the happiest selection. 



