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Show THE RACE HORSE. .. : . We have an old book of nearly five hundred pages in fine type which' 'is the record of English race horse winners from before the first Derby in 1780. The book is .old and shows how faithfully it has been read. There are many people in England who eould Lot begin to name the. kings, queens, sages, soldiers, authors and poets who have found honored sepulchre in Westminster abbey, hat there is scarcely a stable - boy in th "tight lHtle isle" who cannot, offhand, name for you the winners of the Derby, the Newmarket and St. Ledger for any given year.. And in thia connection there is no record of a chage of English cavalry thai did not go where it waa ordered to. go, from Waterloo to the eharge of the light brigade from Balaklava to tha fight in the bend of the Nile, and by the Indus, all of which is a reminder 'that while kings and queens and statesmen and poets and writers and multi-millionaires are. good in their places ; when the time, cbmes for nation to defend their honor or their people lives the great unheeded stratum haa to be called upon, and between thousands of these and the horse there is mutual confidence and affection. ,In the crisi of the Derby race when the other rider were urging their horse with whip and spur," Archie bent over and patting the neck of Blair Athol, said low, "Old man, you know it ia tip to us to win today," and the great horse responded in a way to make the others look as though they were- standing atilL ( , When statesmen ere counting their country's asset, as-set, the value of the horse should not be underestimated. underes-timated. , . . And the spirit which would for the general good abolish the race horse and discourage the raising of th very finest breeds of horses, will possibly be in order when there shall be no more wars and the earth is devoted solely to the production of food, j but it is at least three thousand years too soon to spring it new. ' i i i . n " '.' |