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his utmost, unless his horse be nearly dissected alive ; a 
disgusting instance of which Mr. Lawrence has given from 
the mouth of a jockey of former days, and from his own 
evidence of the dreadful condition of the horse. The race 
was at Epsom, for a plate ; the name of the horse, Hussar , 
by Snap; the jockey, William Barnes. It will not, indeed, 
be denied, that it is the nature of some horses to require 
frequent fillip with both whip and spur, to prevent them 
from falling asleep in their course, and some additions to 
these are probably required at the run in, for the purpose 
of eliciting their utmost exertions; such are styled, in the 
language of the turf, good whipped-horses—the stout , or 
lasting,—the game of which, rather than the speed, is their 
prominent qualification. But in the strongest probability, 
every drop of blood drawn from these is utterly unnecessary, 
as it is barbarous and contrary to the very idea of sport, in 
which even the horse himself ought to share. Many a race 
has been lost by a foul cut, or a brutal use of the spur, 
either by damping the spirit and enfeebling the nerve of 
the horse, or inducing a sullen disgust or depression. An 
example, much talked of at the time, and through which a 
vast sum of money was lost, occurred in the case of old 
Duke William, which was nearly home and winning : he 
received a foul cut with the whip in a very tender part, 
when he instantly hung back and lost the race. 
Such horrible sights have been enjoyed within memory, 
even too lately to be pointed out, without making an open 
exhibition of our shame. Happily, however, a more mild 
and rational practice has for a considerable number of years 
past taken place. These scenes, the very antipodes to every 
idea of pleasure or sport, and so distressing to every humane 
and rational feeling, are not now, as formerly, of nearly in¬ 
variable occurrence ; although yet sensibility, reason, and 
