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tion " emollit mores nee sinet esse feros;" and I 

 will further hope, that where horses have been as 

 unfairly ridden and as unfeelingly punished as I have 

 often seen them by gentlemen riders, it has pro- 

 ceeded from want of judgment and over-excitement, 

 a very poor excuse, I must admit, when it is done ; 

 still it does not call forth the same unmitigated and 

 23roper censure and disgust, as absolute want of 

 feeling, which, give it its proper appellation, we can 

 call nothingless than sheer brutality. AVhy horses often 

 suffer so much under unpractised gentlemen riders, 

 is this, such persons ride their horse so injudiciously, 

 that he is virtually often beat by the time the race is 

 half over, and when near the end of it has no" more 

 chance of winning it than a dead one ; their want of 

 practice, and consequently judgment, prevents their 

 knowing or feeling when this is the case, and the 

 fear of their riding being criticised induces them to 

 try if steel and whipcord cannot effect what is 

 impossible. I can most truly assure them, that 

 neither or both of these modes of punishment can 

 produce any beneficial effect when the animal 



