The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-29 00:00:00

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THE HON.- ARTILLERY COMPANY'S STEEPLE-CHASE,
MILL HELL, HEN DO S.—SATURDAY, Dac. I.
The first' rade, for a. chased Tankard and pair of Goblets,
take place at one Veinal:. precisely. (6 subs.)
Cumberland Lass Flying Duchess
Liberator Fanny Fern
Lobst& ••}tilatl'(late Hussar) Harry Coverdale
The second /ace, for an engraved Tankard and pair of GObletb,,
will be run at twdo'olock.• (5 subs.)
Surprise Mack Dragon
Spider 1 Escniayritas
Liberator
The third race will take plae
Scent Tankard and entrance mi
Linkboy
Steamer
Volunteer
Rocket
Yeoman
St. Patrick
Ladybird'
Little Coorge
_ Sponscillia
Ifs all of the aboVe races the

!.e. at bliree o'clock, for a map&
ioney. (17 subs.)
I Cumberland., Doss
Iteptffse'
I Advent
Medora
Sir Charles
1 Pi ima Donna
Lobster Salacipate ILussanfi
Bletehley

eights will be 12st. each..

Mr, Reynard has sold Vinaigrette to Mr. S. Smith.
Mr; M.- Dawson has sold Bourgeois to Mr. Parker.
Mong, Lupin purchased Deviator a few days ago, for £lOO.
Mr. 11. Carter's Porte Respect has been sent into A. Briggs:
stable
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Birmingham Steeple' Chases will take place on Monday and i
'Tuesday, April 8 and P.
MaZt,. the colt Mons. Teddy purchased of Madame Latachn,
de Faye, is a, yearling, not a three year old.
Lord Bucliab', who rides as Mr. Erskine, has ridden seven
winners this yea?.
Mr. A: A. 31orral? Pitends to send fear greyhounds to the
Birmingham dog show next week, namely—Ajax, Momentum,.
Malibran, and Grisi.
The national exhibition of etiorting and other dogs will take •
place at Bretherton and Harrison's Repository, Cheaps.de,.
Birmingham, on Tuesday next, December 4.
igs, Bale's chestnut colt Ludlow (h.b.) by Definree, out of"
Gniland, has been added to the list of geldingsl. and Romance,
by Ratcatcher, has been put to the stud.
T. Xerithigs los returned to Chantilly for more homes. The
' Confederacy had a "field day" at Chantilly last Monday,
when they tried no' fewer than thirty-five oa the Pelouse..
Mr. Taliet'slitrse Illy Elizabeth, by Flying Dutchman,. out of
Shamrock ;• brotor filly Active. by Filbert; chestnut filly Lady
Ilii-ston. by Orestes: dam by Picaroon; and Mr. Parker's-Mont.
du Po; by Birdeatcher, out of Calliope, 2 yrs, and Bourgeois,.
aged, hare' jollied C. Rol/Vs lot at Hinton Lodge, mar
Shrivenham. •
Mons. Benoisf wianot, if is said, consent to Capucine beim;
sold. The late Mom Aumont gave hint her dam Itathilde with,
a Proviso that her prodfiee should be his (Mons. Aumont's) as.
long as he chose to keep than in training, but at the expiration
o
their turf career they should become the sole property of the
breeder.
TEfE

TURKISH BATH AND ITS APPLICATION

TO HORSE TRAINING.
The following extracts are taken from a highly-
interesting pamphlet, by Erasmus Wilson, entitled
" Thermo-Therapia : the Heat Cure; or. the Treatment
of Dieease by Immersion of the Body its Heated Air" :
" TEAMING, CAPABILITIES• OF THE Been.—ln em-
ploying the bath as a means of training, we mast ham
clearly before us the powers of the bath, on the one.
hand, and the precise objects which we wish to attains
on the other. The bath will abstract tke old materiall
from the system, and will thereby render the system'
more ready to take up and more capable of appropriat—
ing new and strengthening nutritious matter which male
be given to supply its place. In other words, it will do-
the sweating part of the process excellently, without
fatigue, without wear and tear to the economy. But
this, although a necessary part of the process of training.
lis only a part of the process. Other means are required
' to direct the new nutritive matter to the organs which
especially require it, the organs of locomotion, and the
principal of these means is exercise. The racehorse
mast still have his muscles trained/ by exercise; the,
' prize fighter, prize runner, or prize rower, must still!
pursue a systematic coarse of exercise; but the exercise.
m both instances is only that which is required to'
educate the muscles, to give them power, preciwion,
facility 9f action, and to strengthen the breathing func-
tion ; the exercise for the abstraction of unnecessary
matter, for the removal of fat, is no longer requisite;
for that the bath will amply and sufficiently provide.
" ADAPTATIO7; OF THE BATH TO THE PRESERVATION-
or THE Ifeeteen or THE HORSE.—My friend G., who
has had mucil and the best kind of experience in the
management of horses, tells me that fur more than
twenty-five years he has been in the habit of having his
horses washed whenever they returned to the stable in a
state of perspiration, and with the re!, ult that his stable
was remarkable for the health and condition of the
animals. His process was as follows :—The horses
were thoroughly sponged over with warm water, then
with tepid water, and lastly with cold ; the water was
then scraped out of their coats with a sceaPer Obi-
gilhtm), and they were well wiped down with ,a leather.
After this they were covered with a cotton sheet, and
their legs were bandaged with cotton rollers-. ..1.11 fif-
teen or twenty minutes the sheet was raised grad& 111 Y.
first at one corner, then at another, until it was c 0.71-
pl.etely removed ; the uncovered portion being thoroughev
wiped before the next was proceeded with, and the process
being continued until the animal was completely drye
After this treatment there was no fear of any subsequent
breaking out, and however sharply the hors-es bad bears
worked, frequently after a run of ten miles in half an
hour, they were ready and willing for a double feed of:
oats. How different this picture from that of the.
common condition of horses under similar circumstances ;
breaking out into a profuse, and often a succession of
perspirations, after being put into the stable,..
and unable to eat their corn from faintness and:
exhaustion. But how curious the parallel with(
the stages of the Roman bath : the exercise ie,
the suclatorium ; then the operations of the
lavatorium ; firstly, the warm effusion, then the cold
douche and the strip"' : and, lastly, the and
the sheet. Nay, the parallel permits of being pushed
even one stage further. My friend W. says: 'I have
no objection to see a friend in the bath, or invite him
to dinner ; but not both on the same day, for the bath
makes him so hungry that my cook threatens to Ore
nit warning.'
"VENTILATION OF THE SKIN OF THE HORSE.—Thee
importance of ventilating the skin is illustrated in the:
process of clipping and singeing, as applied to the horse..
The thickening andlengthening of the coat of the horse in
the autumn season is a change obviously adapted to
prepare them for the coming severity of the winter;
and, however natural to the animal in its wild state,. is
ill suited to his condition as the useful and obedient
servant of man. As autumn advances, and after a few'
cold days, the coat of the horse appears as if 4 broken(
up' into plots, and the individual hairs stand out
roughly, or in technical language, the coat ' stares.'
Accompanying this change in the appearance of '
skin, the animal becomes weak and languid, loses his
spirit, breaks out into sudden and abundant perspira-
tion upon slight exercise, and shows himself unequal
to his work. Now, the ready remedy for this state of
things is the removal of the excess of hair, and the expo-
sure of the skin to the action of the atmosphere. If the
coat be clipped close to the skin or singed, or, better
still, be shaven, the animal preserves his strength and
vigour, and is equal to all the labour that may reason-
ably be imposed upon him. Of the three processes
shaving is the best ; then clipping, and lastly singeing.
As to the latter, it is not quite clear whether its inferior
position in rank to the others is due to the less complete
exposure of the skin to the action of the air, or to the
sealing of the ends of the hair by the act of burning. It
is not' improbable that the cut ends in shaving and
clipping may serve as breathing pores for the inhalation
of air; an advantage to the oxygenisation of the circu-
lation in the skin that is lost in the contraction and
obliteration of the cells of the hair which ensues after
singeing. Another curious concomitant of clipping is
a change in the colour of the coat, a change which seems
to indicate that the colour of the hair produced in the
winter time is different from that of the summer."

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RACING FIXTURES FOR 1861.
FEBRUARY.
. 13 I Covontry ..
MARCH.
.5 ! Shrewsbury .

Lincoln

Nottingham Spring
Liverpool Spring

IA

APR:

Northampton

IL.
IThirsk
Newmarket First Sp:ing ... 29

Epsom Spring

11

Chester
York
14
Malton
Bath
JU
Chelmsford
Hungerford
kseot ll
Hampton
Newton l9

Manchester
Harpenden
Epos)

.. 22

Newmarket
Carlisle
Worcester
Liverpool July 9
AITGI

,: 24

,Y.
Abingdon
Nottingham l6
Goodwood , 30

i Oldham 25,
Newcastle
Bibery Club 26.
Stockbridge
Winchester
Winchester

Brighton
Brighton Club

Doncaster ...
Richmond .

'ST.
7 I Wolverhampton
9 Reading
SI:PU.SIB ER.
17 1 Monmouth
24 1 Manchester
25 1

Leicester

OCTC
Newmarket First October.. 1
Newmarket Second October 14
NOVE

Worcester
Liverpool

iBER.
Newmarket Houghton 2B

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I Shrewsbury --
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HUNTING FIXTURES.
The WYNNSTAY PACK will meet on
Friday, November 30, at
Saturday, December 1, at
Each day at half-past ten.
Master, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., M.P. ; Huntsman, J.Walker.

~..Allen Sadlers"
Hinton

The CHESHIRE HOUNDS meet on
Saturday, November 30, at Ashton )1 •yef.,
Monday, December 3, at V orb," ry
Wednesday, December 5, at Black Dog, aighton.
Thursday, December 6, at olllton ?ark
Saturday, December 5, at B, caton Cuatle.
Saturday, December 10. ;,t. mnoker Inn
Wednesday, December 12, at Wrenbury Station
Thursday, December 13, at Cholmondcley
Saturday, December 15, at Delamere
Each day at half-past ten.