A MAN AND AND HORSE RACE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 684, 4 February 1881, Page 2

A MAN AND AND HORSE RACE.

A man and horse race began at noon on Sunday, 6th September (Bays the Chicago Times), and concluded at midnight the next Saturday. Several: ;men dragged their weary and awollen legs around the ■tracklor the whole time, bilk-there was not much, amusement to be derived in watching them. When th6]Fw,ere tired they couldn't be whipped, into making a burst of Bpeed. The spectators, knew that when the,nien,reached a. certahi point of exhaustion they would : withdraw, and that the probability of a. man falling down in absolute exhaustion was very small. But It was: different with,the horses. There was some fun in. watching them. Their Bufferings might be indefinitely severe. They couldn't complain. They couldn't stop until their owners wished them to. • They had nothing to gain by. \ success. They had nothing, to hope for, They, could not understand the thing at all, and there was nothing in; the affair to bring their ambition to the rescue of their muscles. They did. the work'and bore the fatigue, and inqther fellow, had the fun, such it was, and' determined the amount of ..rest which they should receive. They were led round the traoks; they were-coaxed by; men who walked ahead, of them, with hay in their hands'; they .were mounted by'boys and ridden around. the track. ; Their leg) swelled and every cord arid muscle grew sore, but 1 they couldn't give up unless their owners'withdrew-them. . The spectators were exhilarated bytho'iproßpect that some of them would drop dead on the track. It was great sport to see the lame and exhausted animals forced to go on with their dreary task In.spite of all the efforts of the leaders winders o! the horses, a mari came in ten miles ahead of the bes.t'horse...Had this disgusting piece of brutality-proved pecuniarily successful, it is probable that nothing would have satisfied the ambition of the humane and gentle managers but the introduction of horse and-maii matches into England. The contest was a' barbarity that admits of no defence, It was a disgrace to the city, mitjgrated only by the fact that not enough Chicago people attended it to make it profitable,