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the horses under our charge running not only once or twice 
but twenty or thirty times a year, and we are also expected 
to have them fit each and every time, and looking like satin. 
Again, formerly, there were in the year only about 400 
horses to contend against, and very few, if any, foreign 
horses. Now, how vastly increased do we find the numbers. 
According to Messrs. Weatherby’s “ Racing Calendar” for 
races past (1878) we see no less than 2,097 horses running 
in 1,699 races, exclusive of horses that run only for hurdle 
races and hunter races on the flat. The whole is given in 
an interesting form in the two tables at foot.1 It should be 
1 TabLe No. 1. 
Table showing the number of horses of different ages that have run in the 
undermentioned years :— 
re: - ‘Iwo Year|ThreeYear| Four Year| Five and 
rears. | Yearlings. olds. olds. olds. upwards. Total. 
1797 _ 48 161 122 262 593 
18092 _- 31 117 108 280 530 
1807 —_ 33 230 148 280 691 
1812 _ 55 324 188 254 8ar 
1814 = 78 309 174 239 800 
1822 _ 112 285 194 387 988 
1827 - Ty2 36t 210 453 1,166 
1832 = 200 395 237 407 1,239 
1827 _ 215 326 210 462 1,213 
1843 - 213 384 236 456 1,289 
1849 - 264 419 254 378 1,315 
1859 9 576 496 240 324 1,642 
1860 = 608 521 302 286 1,717 
1861 _ 661 550 214 342 1,767 
1862 _ 626 528 291 38r x 826 
1863 —= 643 510 291 393 1,837 
1864 _- 664 548 298 438 1,948 
1865 = 659 $72 304 447 2,042 
1866 _ 729 572 359 449 2,109 
1867 _ 752 661 403 637 2,458 
1868 _ 844 631 418 617 2,510 
1869 — 842 673 402 617 2,534 
1870 807 709 442 611 2,569 
1871 = 732 749 450 561 2,483 
1872 _- 699 62 362 390 2,098 
1873 - 694 602 356 427 2,079 
1874 = 7190 572 320 363 1,965 
1875 => 784 559 354 396 2,084 
1876 _ 769 592 303 290 2.054 
1877 = B05 604 318 33° 2.057 
1878 _- 873 612 321 291 2,097 
The Irish horses are not included before 1849. In 1843, 113 horses ran in the 
Trish races reported in the English Racing Calendar, Since the autumn of 1867, 
