438 ArrENDIX. 



Flying Childers, Eclipse, Bay Malton, Gimcrack, Mambrino, &c, 

 • the racehorses were not commonly trained until they were fivi 

 years old. They then ra i long heats under heavy weights an( 

 lasted four or five years, sometimes more. Now they are almos 

 8ll galloped as yearlings, run as two-year olds, and the great ma 

 jority never see the race-course after they are three or four. Thi 

 is the system which Admiral Rous upholds and applauds, and de 

 clares to be an absolute necessity. His authority is deemed ver 

 great, and therefore I will quote it against himself. He ha 

 often declared that Bay Middleton was the best horse that ran ii 

 England in the present century. Well, would you believe tha 

 this hest horse of so many thousands was never trained or run a 

 a two-year old at all ? It was just the same with Glencoe, Mid 

 dleton, Mameluke, &c.; belonging to the same owner. Moreover 

 Sir Joseph Hawley, and other experienced and able turfmen ol 

 England are opposed to the Admiral on this point. He has, to b 

 sure, his supporters ; they are, first, breeders who want to sel 

 plenty of yearlings at high prices, and who know that the soone 

 they are worn out the belter for them ; second, public trainer 

 who like to have a great many in their stables : third, crack jockie 

 who makes thousands of dollars extra every year by riding two 

 year old races ; fourth, betting men, who care no more for th 

 horse himself, as a race horse, than they do for the gipsies 

 donkeys in the lanes and on the commons. He is to ^them 

 medium for betting and nothing else, just as the' trotter of thi 

 country is to people of a certain class ; and upon any subject re 

 lating to the well-being of the horse as a breed, and the utility 

 or otherwise, of some practices to which he is exposed, they ough 

 not to be listened to for a moment. By winning the money o: 

 foolish and ignorant people they can do but little harm. B 

 cheating one another they can do none at all. But if it be cor 

 ceded that their interests shall prevail in the decision of question 

 affecting the status of horse-racing and the stamina and stabilit 

 of the race-horsf.we shall Foon see the reaping of a pr.rilous an 



