Race. A race includes any purse, match, stake, premium 

 or sweepstakes for which a contest of speed is made by horses, 

 over any course or track. The term includes both trotting 

 and running contests, and whether in harness, to wagon or 

 under the saddle. Hence racing means the sport or practice of 

 trotting and running horses. A public race is understood to 

 mean a race for any prize, for which an admission fee is 

 charged, and at which judges and timers take direction of the 

 trial. 



Race Record. A record obtained in a regular race, as 



distinguished from a record made against time. ^ 



Horses with race records bring the best i)rices. — Tlie Horseman. 



Racer. The thoroughbred English or American horse ; 



a running bred horse. 



In a work published at London In 1836, entitled " Comparative View of 

 tlie Form and Character of the English Racer and Saddle Horse 

 During tlie Last and Present Centuries," enibellislied with eigiiteeu 

 fine plates of famous liorses, a celebrated racer called Old Partner, 

 foaled in 1718, is represented as galloping in clothing which greatly 

 conceals his form. So also in the portrait of tlie famous racer, 

 Sedbury, foaled in 1734, (both painted by Seymour, a noted animal 

 painter), the horse's body is much concealed by clothing — a large 

 blanket being strapped closely about his body, extending up on the 

 neck one-third of the way to the poll, with an apron fastened around 

 his breast and dropping nearly half way to the knees. Both horses 

 are represented at full running speed. 



Racing Calendar. A stud book; a registry of the 

 pedigrees and performances of running horses. It is said that 

 th^ first English racing calendar was issued by John Cheny in 

 1727. The English Jockey Club, which had been established 

 seven years previous to this period, had taken an active part in 

 preserving pedigrees of horses, which w^ere probably published 

 in this first calendar. In 1751 the records that had appeared 

 in this old calendar and other sporting publications, were com- 

 piled and published in a collected form, but it was not until 

 1791 that the English Stud Book apiDeared in its present shape, 

 since which time it has been continued to this day. 



The publication of the Stud Book marked an era in the science of 

 breeding. It was the first effort to establish special books for 

 recording animal pedigrees for preservation and for purposes of 

 study; and the jiractice has spread to every land where thorough- 

 bred's are bred, and the method has been extended to every impor- 

 tant breed of live stock. English racing first showed that super- 

 iority could only be maintained by purity of blood. It took a 



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