MISCELLANEA. **>y 
the remainder is on the descent till within the distance where 
the ground again rises. 
The new T. Y. C. is six furlongs, the old T. Y. C.,or Wood- 
cot course, is somewhat less than four. 
The Craven Course is one mile and a quarter. 
Doncaster 
Is a circular and nearly flat course of about one mile, seven 
furlongs, and seventy yards. 
The shorter courses are portions of this circle. 
Liverpool. 
The new course now used for both meetings, is flat, a mile and 
a half round, and with a straight run in of nearly three quarters 
of a mile, and a very gradual rise. 
Manchester 
Is one mile, rather oval, with a hill and a fine run in. 
New Sporting Mag., Map 1835, p. 73. 
How TO SHOE A VICIOUS HoRSE. 
As soon as breakfast was over I generally enjoyed the luxury 
of idling about the town; and in passing the shop of a black- 
smith who lived opposite to the Goldene Kette, the manner in 
which he tackled and shod a vicious horse always amused me. 
On the outside wall of the house two rings were firmly fixed, to 
one of which the head of the patient was lashed close to the 
ground; the hind foot to be shod, stretched out to the utmost 
extent of the leg, was then secured by the other ring about five 
feet high, by a cord passed through a cloven hitch, fixed to the 
root of the poor creature’s tail. The hind foot was consequently 
much higher than the head ; indeed it was exalted and pulled so 
heavily at the tail, that the animal seemed to be quite anxious to 
keep his other feet an terra Jirma. With one hoof in the heavens 
it did not suit him to kick ; with his nose pointing to the infernal 
regions, he could not conveniently rear : and as the devil himself 
was apparently pulling at his tail, the horse at last gave up the 
point, and quietly submitted to be shod . — -Bubblesfrom the Brun- 
nens . 
