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Title: The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c
Year: 1832 (1830s)
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Subjects: Agriculture Farm produce Farm produce
Publisher: London : Isaac Alger
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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e horses achance, horses that cannot stay a distance.But much as I bslievc in long-distance racesI should not like to see us revert to theold days of four-mile heats or four-mile racesin which they crawled for three miles and ahalf and raced for half a mile. It may perhapscome as a surprise to some of my readers that astraight mile takes more staying than anyother course. An experienced jockey told me thatin all his experience he had only ridden threehorses that could gallop a mile from end to end.Then Mr. Angas would raise the weights to aminimum of 7 st. I am sure he has never con-sidered what an unfair thing that would be to thebest horses. It would have raised Velocitysweight in the City and Suburban to 10 st. 2 lb.,and in the Kempton Jubilee Handicap to 10st.12 lb. ; and it would have brought Bridge ofCannys weight in the Gre3t Yorkshire Handi-cap at Doncaster to 93t. 11 lb. No great weightsto carry either, ib may be said. Perhaps not,but very serious weights—indeed, impossible
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The animal shown above is the Cleveland Bay Mare Aislaby Beauty, winner of First Prize for ClevelandBay Brood Mares, and Silver Medal for Best Mare of the Breed, at the Yorkshire Agricultural SocietysShow at Barnsley this year. Aislaby Beauty was born in 1900, sire Prince George, dam Hetty, and wasbred by Mr. G. Elders, Toft House, Aislaby, but is the property of Mr. J. H. Tyerman, Pond Farm,Hinderwell, S O. with it, on account of the rules and restric-ions imposed. He can select what route he likesfor his horse, and he prefers to keep full control ofis own property. Can you blame him ? Scarcity of Good Stallions. T AM also with Mr. Angas when he speaks of1 the scarcity of good stallions, but I do notagree with him as to the causes of the scarcity.Travelling about the country as I do from Januaryto December to shows and race meetings I seemany Thoroughbred horses that are admirablyadapted for country stallions, horses such asMr. Angas describes, with size, power, and action.What becom

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