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Show fHlBj I milItarv riUe was recently made from Brus- Ifljj Bel8 to Ostend which should consign every partici- H ., pant to a twelvemonth in prison. The distance traveled was eighty-two and a half miles and was ridden by the winner in six hours and twenty minutes, or more than thirteen miles per hour, though the horses were "hoof-deep in mud." The account says many horses fell exhausted; three animals dropped dead, and the splendid Hungarian thoroughbred that won the brutal race "died soon after the victory." The thing that grieves the reader most is that the riders all lived. Still as the world" rates things those riders were all officers and gentlemen, while the blood horse that killed himself to win was only a beast. A humane man would sooner go to the heaven set aside for such thoroughbreds as that Hungarian horse, than the one where the riders of those beautiful horses will attain to. |