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without the sanction of the master ; so where the 

 rascality originates, there let the greatest and most 

 deserved reprobation rest ; this shews why a horse 

 that is run to lose is all but certain to be grossly 

 abused. There have been other means resorted to, 

 to prevent a horse winning, that really are painful to 

 the animal, and consequently brutal on the part of 

 the perpetrator ; but these are rare, from the 

 liability of producing permanent or, at least, length- 

 ened injury : let it be done as it may, whenever we 

 see a superior horse beaten by inferior ones, and see 

 him severely punished, in nineteen cases in twenty 

 we should be justified in passing an opinion that 

 such a result began by rascality, and ended in 

 brutality ; and I have no hesitation in saying, that 

 the owner who orders such to be put in practice, 

 be he who he may, ought not to be tolerated in 

 civilised society. If an owner merely desires his 

 horse to be pulled^ (that is, not allowed to win,) let 

 him excuse himself to those interested as he best 

 can ; with such a case I have nothing to do here, it 

 is no brutality to the animal ; and, sooth to say, most 



