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Man was not born to sorrow alone; he can indulge in pleasing 

 as well as profitable sports, without even stepping out of the 

 path of peace and innocent pleasure. 



To fit a horse for trotting or running, requires all the 

 ingenuity that man is capable of bestowing on him, and 

 has occupied the attention of the best horsemen in the 

 world; for this reason 1 deem it useless for me to attempt 

 to instruct you on this point farther than I have already 

 done; and the whole, in order to the animal's performing 

 labor and sustaining a continuance of action, to which 

 he would noi be adequate without much previous pre- 

 paration, would not be a very easy task for any one to 

 undertake. By condition, the farmer generally means a 

 high state of fatness; but not so with the amateur sports- 

 man; he means that state of health which produces the 

 greatest degree of strength by reducing the superfluous 

 fat, and bringing the mere flesh into clean, hard and 

 powerful muscle, and invigorating the lungs and other 

 internal organs, so that they may promptly discharge 

 their respective functions, and suffer no damage from 

 uncommon stress, &c.; for a horse loaded with fat could 

 not be expected to be successful in a long race. 



TIME TABLE. 



The most extraordinary speed that the horse has been 

 able to accomplish, both in Europe and America, will be 

 found in the following table, which is a matter of some 

 interest to the fast men of the age; and it should be pre- 

 served, as it has been carefully compiled by the Clipper 

 from various authors, both English and American; and 

 in the main is thought to be reliable; but as it is un- 



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