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Powers of the Race-Horse. 
[From the Sporting Magazine.] 
In answer to a question asked by Sir John Sinclair, Mr. 
Robson, the excellent trainer at Newmarket, gave it as his 
opinion, that “ the perfections of a race-horse consist in his 
wind; which is innate in their breed, and degenerates when 
mixed or crossed. It is observed, sometimes, that the other 
(half-bred) species of horses go nearly, or quite, as fast as the 
slower kind of race-horse; but they very soon tire from want of 
wind; whilst the running-horse breed has the peculiar merit, 
from his wind, of bearing fatigue so much better than any other 
breed of horses.” 
The following narrations of “remarkable races” are curious 
and interesting: they would have proved of much greater value, 
however, had the spaces of time in which the respective heats 
were run been accurately noted and recorded : in fact, this is 
information which ought to accompany all such accounts : they 
might then turn out of some service in a scientific point of view; 
at all events, it is a sad deficit, when the object is to show the 
speed or “wind” of race-horses.— Edit. 
Carlisle, May 13th, 1761.—£50. for four-year-olds, 9st. each. 
Two mile heats. 
Dr. Dunn’s b. c. Cadaboru, by Cade, dam by Shock...1 7 0 3 0 1 
Mr. Dalton’s b. c. Bold Burton. 9 5 6 1 0 2 
Mr. Lupton’s b. f. Stella.,...3 1 4 5 3 3 
Mr. Pearson’s ch. c. Heart of Oak. 5 3 0 2 
Mr. Taylor's br. c. Cuddle me Cuddy.2 6 3 4 
SirJ. Lowther’s b. f. Scotch Moggy.7 4 7 6 
Mr. Shaftoe’sb. c. Brilliant. ......4 2 5 dis.'J 
Mr. Holme’s gr. c. Tyro (fell).6 dis. 
Cadabora ran two dead heats: viz. the third with Heart of Oak ; 
the fifth with Bold Burton. Brilliant ran against a post in the 
fourth heat, and bruised his rider so much that he expired the 
same night. 
In 1793, Mr. Donner’s bay colt by Drone, dam by Alfred 
(afterwards the property of Mr. Cookson, and called Meanwell), 
winner of the Maiden Plate at New Mai ton, ran fourteen heats 
for three plates within five weeks: viz. Sept. 11th, at Stockton, 
four heats; Oct.3rd,atBoroughbridge, fiveheats—the third a dead 
heat with Mr. Hutchinson’s Byrom by King Fergus, dam by En¬ 
gineer; and, lastly, Oct. 16th, at Malton, five heats—the fourth 
a dead heat with Mr. JolifFe’s Young Posthumous—a circum¬ 
stance, perhaps, unparalleled in the annals of the turf. 
