PERFORMANCES OF HEAVY-WEIGHT RACEHORSES. 195 
hours. “The squire” rode 11st. and his saddle may be 
put down as another 14 lbs. Thus we see twenty-eight 
horses carrying twelve stone four miles; and of the 
number, six were only three-year-olds, one of which did the 
distance in eight minutes fifty seconds, whilst some of the 
_ older horses took ten minutes fifteen seconds—though the 
fastest time—eight minutes—was that of the five-year-old 
Tranby. We could scarcely require a stronger proof than 
this is, of the capability of thoroughbred horses to do long 
distances under heavy weights. But again, take a case in 
training, and we find it the same. “Druid,” in his “Scott 
and Seabright,” tells us that ‘ Voltigeur could sweat week 
after week with 12st. laid across his back, and quite deserves 
his (the trainer’s) most glowing eulogy, ‘his legs and feet, my 
lord, are like Azron.’” 
But let us examine the running of some of our old horses, 
commencing with their two-year-old-races, and see what 
weight they carried then and after, and with what sort of 
success. Rataplan, Fisherman, Chandos and Vespasian all 
carried, as two-year-olds, 8st. 7 lbs., and neither then nor 
after did the weight hurt them: for we find Chandos ran 
no less than thirty times, carrying II st. and up to I4st. 
5lbs., and winning with the latter weight, besides many 
other races with a little less. Racaplan, over long and severe 
courses carrying different weights up to Iost. 41b., ran 
no less than seventy-one races, winning thirty of them. 
To this list hundreds may be added, but I shall merely say 
that Vespastan (with legs anything but likely to stand 
a preparation) carried 1ost. 41b, and won the Chesterfield 
Cup, besides many other races. SF %sherman’s subsequent per- 
formances were astonishing, showing that heavy weights did 
him no harm. He ran 136 races and won ninety-six, over 
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