The American eclectic practice of medicine, as applied to the diseases of domestic animals : in which every form of disease peculiar to animals is treated in accordance with the most approved methods of modern science : with a treatise on bleeding, blistering, mercurializing, and the pernicious effects of minerals on the animal fibers : with a list of poisons and their antidotes : together with a historical sketch of the horse, and the principles of breeding, rearing, training, and the general management of the horse / by Nelson N. Titus.
- Titus, Nelson N.
- Date:
- 1862
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The American eclectic practice of medicine, as applied to the diseases of domestic animals : in which every form of disease peculiar to animals is treated in accordance with the most approved methods of modern science : with a treatise on bleeding, blistering, mercurializing, and the pernicious effects of minerals on the animal fibers : with a list of poisons and their antidotes : together with a historical sketch of the horse, and the principles of breeding, rearing, training, and the general management of the horse / by Nelson N. Titus. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![they got into straight work on the back-side, Rattler again col- lared him, and they went locked to nearly the half-mile post, when Dutchman once more got in front, Wheelan having taken Rattler in hand for a brush up the straight side. This he made soon after. They were lapped as they swung round the turn, and the struggle that now ensued revived recollections of Bascomb and Postboy. Profound silence was preserved on the stand, that neither horse might be excited or frightened into a break, and the interest of the scene was so great that each of the spectators seemed to hold his breath as the horses neared the stand. It was a brush to the end, Dutchman com- ing out a throatlatch in front, caused by Hiram's giving up his pull, and giving him a push, which made him clear the winner by a foot. The excited feelings of the crowd in the stand could no longer be repressed, but burst out in a tumultuous cheer, that might have been heard three miles off. The last mile was done in 2.41£, and the heat in 8.02. The judges, after some discussion, pronounced it a dead heat. Great odds were now offered on Dutchman, though he ex- hibited more signals of distress than Rattler; his trainer, however, informed us that he hung out these after taking his ordinary exercise; it was.a way he had, rather than any severe exertion which produced them. Both sweat freely, and came to the post a fourth time about as good as new. The per- formance of the match commenced at four o'clock; it was six, and almost dark, when they started on the Fourth Heat.—Dutchman led off from the score to half- way down the back-side, by three lengths; Rattler, however, lapped him at the half-mile post, but the Dutchman soon after drew out in front again. Hiram kept him at his work from this point to the finish, and Rattler never got up to him after- wards, that we could see, for it was now so dark that neither horse could be distinguished; Rattler subsequent] v fell off in his stride, and was finally beaten handily by six lengths, after as honest a race as we ever saw, and by far the best time on record at this date. From the above it will be seen that the average time of the second heat was 2.36 and two thirds of a second per mile • and that of the four heats 2.40 and five sixths of a second. A great number of people were assembled to witness the match, and we were struck with the number of gentlemen in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21159786_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
