58 BIPEDS AND QUADRUPEDS. 



Now where it is quite expected that a horse from 

 his superiority must win, no man would trust to a 

 jockey's promise to lose ; so the horse would be 

 so treated as to render him so inferior to others 

 in the race, that the jockey may try as long as 

 he pleases, but unless some most extraordinary 

 circumstance arises, he cannot win. Most persons 

 have heard of the terms of " hocussing " horses, or 

 " making them safe ;'* in whatever way they night 

 " made safe," the effect is the same — they lose. It 

 may be thought by some that the making a horse 

 safe, comprehends some practice of cruelty ; it does 

 so as to its results, but not as to the usual mode re- 

 sorted to to make him so ; it merely consists in so 

 dosing him as to put him in the same state of pros- 

 tration of powers of exertion, lassitude, and de- 

 pression of spirits, and vigour, that a man is seen 

 in who has been inebriated to a great excess the pre- 

 ceding day. 



A man thus circumstanced would most certainly 

 not feel disposed to run a race, and if he did, he 

 would have little chance of winning; it : he would 



