610 PREVENTION OF SALE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 
muscular and tendinous fibre as yet undeveloped ; such 
veterinary palaver as this would never be listened to by the 
connoisseur of Newmarket ; but, when they are told by such a 
man as Craven, that “ for one racer that can bear two-years’ 
training at the earliest period when his powers can be made 
available for the purposes of the turf, a hundred are irretrievably 
ruined in the attempt — assertions such as this, coming home 
to their very hearts, which are too often in their purses, 
may and must be listened to. 
To insist on the inhumanity of such a system as breaks 
down prematurely ninety-nine racers out of a hundred, would 
be, I fear, but throwing away words : the policy of it being 
proved to be good, poor humanity must and will ride on. 
In a work recently published on the Degeneration of our 
Saddle-horses, it is stated, as suggestive of a remedy for 
this pernicious system of racing, that the King’s (or Queen’s) 
Plates should be regulated differently from what they are, the 
object being to give encouragement to running horses at four 
and five years of age at the earliest, rather than destroy the 
framework and power of such as are but three, or even two 
years of age. The suggestion is a very proper one — a step 
in the right direction ; and one which, supported by others of 
a more peremptory character from being instituted by the 
jockey club, would indeed tend to do away, in a short interval 
of time, with the diabolical destruction of good horse-flesh, 
promoted by the gambling spirit the turf has unfortunately 
contracted, in preference to one which would reinstate and 
carry on the wise and happy objects with which racing was 
first introduced, and in which it did, up to a certain epoch in 
its history, gloriously and triumphantly succeed. 
PREVENTION OF THE SALE AND EXPOSURE OF 
GLANDERED HORSES. 
To the Editor of The Veterinarian. 
Dear Sir, — Although I am fully aware that the inten- 
tion of your Journal is not to record and circulate Acts of 
Parliament, still I conceive that the Act of the last Session 
is worthy of your notice, especially as its objects are the sup- 
pression of the sale of glandered horses, and the punishment 
of those persons who may be found guilty of the offence. 
With these views I herewith send you a verbatim copy of 
