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this deservedly proud favourite of fortune is but a 

 sorry representative of the combined speed and 

 stren2:th to which the EnofHsh racer niisht l)e 

 made to attain. And, notwithstanding the concen- 

 tration of horse knowledge always to be found 

 among the toary members of the turf, and money 

 afloat to bind the bargain and *' make the mare to 

 go," I have the audacity to repeat, that we have yet 

 to see the English race-horse brought to the post 

 in perfection — that is, capacitated for giving out 

 his or her utmost speed. 



The reader will anticipate that the evil I am 

 about to decry is, the practice of shoeing the un- 

 developed and growing foot of this highly elastic 

 and elegantly formed animal, by the common 

 method of rivetting up both its sides at the tender 

 age of one year. 



The racing colt literally with a vice appended 

 to each of his feet ! ! The racing colt in clorjs 

 would not be less fascinatins: to the ears of his 

 trainer; but I can assure him, that the common 

 method of shoeing, in the end, will prove an c(|ual 

 obstruction. 



Every three-years-old colt, which has hilherto 

 started for the Derbv, has had his delicatelv or^an- 

 ized i'cci J'cftcrcd in those iron stocks for a period 

 of about a vear and a half previouslv. Can such a 

 state of things continue? No; the side-nailed unfet- 

 tered plan of shoeing, when exercised to the due 



