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Title: A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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The first heat was easily won, when O'Kelly observing that the rider
had been pulling at Eclipse during the whole race, offered a wager tha
the would distance the horses in the next heat. This seemed a thing so
highly improbable, that he immediately had bets to a large amount.
Being called on to declare, he replied " Eclipse first, and the rest no
where!" The event justified his prediction: all the others were dis-
tanced by Eclipse with the greatest ease, or, in the language of the turf,
they had no place.
In the spring of the following year, he beat Mr. Wentworth's Buce-
phalus, who had never before been conquered. Two days afterward-,
he distanced Mr. Strodes Pensioner, a very good horse: and in August
of the same year he won the greatest subscription at York. No horse
daring to enter against him, he closed his short career of seventeen
months, by walking over the Newmarket course for the king's plate, on
October the 18th, 1770. He was never beaten, nor ever paid forfeit;
and won for his owner more than twenty-five thousand pounds.
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THE WELLESLEY ARABIAN.

Wellesley Arabian.

This is the very picture of a beautiful wild
horse of the desert, his precise country was never determined, although
it is known that he was a horse of foreign extraction. He is evidently
neither a perfect Barb, nor a perfect Arabian, but from a neighbouringp
rovince, where both the Barb and Arabian would expand to a more
perfect fullness of form. This horse has been erroneously selected as
the pattern of a superior Arabian, and therefore we have introduced
him; few, however, of his produce were trained who can add much to
his reputation.
It has been imagined that the breed of racing horses has lately very
considerably degenerated. This is not the case. Thorough-bred horses
were formerly fewer in number and their performances created greater

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74 FAMILY

HUNTER. GALLOWAYS AND PONIES.

wonder. The breed has now increased twenty fold, and superiority is
not so easily obtained among so many competitors. If one circumstance
could more than any other, produce this degeneracy, it would be the
absurd and cruel habit of bringing out horses too soon, and the frequent
ailure of their legs before they have come to their full power. Child-
ers and Eclipse did not appear until they were five years old ; but ma-
ny of our best horses and those, perhaps, who would have shown equal
excellence with the most celebrated racers, are foundered and destroyed
before that period.

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