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Oliver, Craufurd, Gilmour, even that feather weight 

 Colonel Wyndham, might in future go and hunt on 

 Putney Heath or Wimbledon Common ; but as the 

 first alluded to somewhat larger couple never took a 

 spin from Grimstone's Gorse to Trussington by way 

 of a breather to show what they could do, I am of 

 opinion any of the names I have mentioned would 

 have been nearly as forward. "Velocity is force," as 

 Tom Belcher used to say: "hit sharp enough you'll 

 hit hard enough." Now as the Noble Lord I first 

 mentioned genersdly goes sharp enough, "I rather think 

 the 17st. gentleman (who I should conceive would not 

 be quite as fast) would find that weight takes more 

 effect on horses than it does onbulfinches, unless indeed 

 he bored through in a walk like a pig. Then, perhaps, 

 one of Meux's dray-horses might be useful. 



Some persons may say, " ive all know the efi*ect 

 weight has upon horses." I do not pretend to say 

 but that these gentlemen (that is, the we ) may know 

 all about it, but I do not ; and this has induced me 

 to take the subject into consideration. We may say, 

 " the thing requires no consideration at all ; weight 

 makes horses go slower, that's all ; so Hakry Hie' over 

 must be slower still to write about it." May be so, 

 Gentlemen, but take care you are not a little too fast 

 (at least in your conclusions). I have just sense 

 enough to know that the same horse (where all the 

 concomitant circumstances attending his going are the 

 same) cannot go so fast with a heavy weight as with 

 a lighter one ; but this is not "the be all and the end 

 all here." I would wish, if I could, to ascertain what 

 the effect of weight is when put in comparison with other 

 things^ which is not so easy to come at as we may suppose. 

 Weight does not always under every circumstance as 



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