. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Quo Vadis The Derby is a race run at Epsom bythree-year-old stallions. The Oaks stake is also run at Epsom bythree-year-old fillies, while the St. Leger is run atDoncaster by three-year-old horses of all kinds. A handicap is run by different partici-pants, but the weight they carry varies accord-ing to the way they have run in previous the handicapper, that is the man who dis-tributes the weights, knows his business, the in contradistinction to steeplechases, or racesover barriers and obstacles. The Newmarketraces oft
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Quo Vadis The Derby is a race run at Epsom bythree-year-old stallions. The Oaks stake is also run at Epsom bythree-year-old fillies, while the St. Leger is run atDoncaster by three-year-old horses of all kinds. A handicap is run by different partici-pants, but the weight they carry varies accord-ing to the way they have run in previous the handicapper, that is the man who dis-tributes the weights, knows his business, the in contradistinction to steeplechases, or racesover barriers and obstacles. The Newmarketraces often last a week, excluding are twenty different tracks and severaltrainers stables. The king of England, who hasa large stud of racers and is an ardent sports-marf, has an establishment at Newmarket incharge of the trainer Richard Marsh. One canoften see the king himself, mounted on a stoutpony, superintending the training of his horses. THE HORSE 145. Ever}^ clay on the plain around Newmarketover one hundred of the most celebrated horsesin England can be seen. Training, professionally so called, has for itsobject to develop and strengthen by exercise,and to brintr a varict\- of humors out of the body by sweating and laxative dosing. Sweat-ing is induced by galloping the animal underwoolen blankets ; he is physicked by pills com-posed chiefly of aloes. Thus the body is keptslim, especially the stomach, which sometimesappears drawn in like that of a greyhound,
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