The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
Hunting -- Dictionaries; Sports -- Dictionaries
In 1793, _Comet_ won 80 guineas, the Stand Plate, and the King's Plate,
at York; _Heroine_, the Queen's Plate at Chelmsford, the King's Plate
and 70 guineas at Lincoln; _Huby_, 400 guineas at Newmarket, 175 guineas
and 295_l._ at York; _Messenger_, 50_l._ at Manchester; _Restless_,
50_l._ at York, 100 guineas at Preston, and the King's Plate at
Carlisle. In 1795, _Ambush_, 50 guineas at Wakefield; _Charmer_, 50_l._
at Catterick Bridge, 50_l._ at Lamberton, and 50 guineas at Stockton;
_Gay Deceiver_, 300 guineas at Doncaster; _Heroine_, 50_l._ and 50
guineas at Newmarket, and the King's Plate at Lincoln; _Huby_, two 50's
at Stockton, and the King's Plate at Dumfries; _Sheperdess_, 100 guineas
at York.
To these excellent runners, in the successive years have been added
_Laura_, _Roseberry_, _Caroline_, _Bellissima_, _Wonder_, _Stella_,
_Stripling_, _Tartar_, _Hyale_, _Jupiter_, (Mr. Hawke's,) and many
others who won large stakes as COLTS and FILLIES, but were never named.
PHYSIC—is a term sometimes given (particularly in the country) to every
kind of MEDICINE that can be administered to either MAN or HORSE: the
more polished and general acceptation confines it solely to the
operation of PURGING, in which sense alone it can be properly
understood. It is but a few years (since the appearance of "The
Gentleman's Stable Directory,") that the general necessity for, and
palpable utility of, occasionally PHYSICING HORSES, became almost
universally admitted. Its salutary effects stand, however, upon too firm
a basis to be again shaken by the obtrusion of speculative opinions:
there are but _few_, if _any_, remaining, who will presume to arraign or
challenge the consistency of annually cleansing full _thirty_ yards of
the intestinal canal, replete with INTERSTICES, and appropriated to
little other purpose than the excretion of _filth_.
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