The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-02-17

SPEED OF THE HoRsE.--The maximum
speed of the race-horse appears to be at the
rate OF mile minute; for few, II any |
horses, can retain the full velocity OF this
rate for even that time. A mile has how
ever, been run at New market in one min
ute and four and half seconds. mo such
| thingD 1t is said, but never was proved,
that Flying Childers did run at Newman
ket, one mile in the minute; certain it is
that this celebrated horse. when carrying
nine stones, two pounds, ran over the
round-course, which is three miles six fur
LONGS and ninety three yards, in six minutes
and rortv seconds. Bay Nation ran four
miles at York, in 1853, in seven minutes,
forty three seconds and half. Eclipse al
so ran the same distance, on the same course,
in eight minutes, with twelve stones. The
most extraordinary instance on record OF
the stoutness, as well as speed, of the race
horse, was displayed in 1885, when Mr.
HuIl's Quibbler ran twen'y-three miles
round the fiat at market, in tifty-seven
; minutes and ten seconds. The speed OF the
rrey hound ard that of the hare Is but little
inferior to that Of the rac"-horse, but their
mowers of endurance at their utmost velocl-
ty are not equal to his.
The racing -gallop is evidently but sue.
, cession of leaps, in which the fore legs and
, hind-egs start in pairs, each pair acting
! simultaneously. The andgallop is not so
rapid movement, as the right legs are a
!, little in advance OF their fellows. 1t is well
: ascertained that horse can never pass al
once from a state of rest into the gallop ol
: full speed, but must begin with the hand
gallon; and cunning Jockeys sometimes de-
:; rive profit from wagering with the unwary
! that no horse shall be found to gallop one
= hundred wards while man runs fifty, the
= two starting together. In this the man il
!. sure to win the race, for the horse has no
= time enough to acquire the necessary mo
- mentum as he would do if the race were 10
= hundred and fifty yards.
One of the most extraordinary feats i
.I the way of express riding performed in moo
- ern ii imeswas that o! boy OF fifteen, FREQ
=, Tyler,who conveyed ed,fromMontgomery toM'
- bile. the news of the two days battle, fougi
between the armies of the United Stat'
;e and Mexico, in the Summer of ls48. TT
-, distance one hundred and ninety miles, WI
=, ACCOMPLISHED in thirteen hours, and d.
- ring the entire night the boy caught al
II saddled his horses, none OF which were
=. readiness, as he was not lsoked for by tho
-, who had the horses in charge.
- A bet against time waswon in July, lS4
n. by an Arab horse, at Bungaiore' IN u u
n presidency of Madras, to run four hGndre
ON miles in four consecutive days. Mr.. frhI.
~ relates in his "Tartar Journeys" stl
more striking instance Of the speed ana 10 10
tom of the Arab; horse of that breed ca
- , ried him from shiraz to Teheran' FIVE nun n
as las red and twenty-five miles, in six days, r.
oy mained three at rest, went back IN hve uay
remained nine at Shraz, and returned aga
no. 10 Teheran in seven days. Another hls'
Of Of bIooded Arabian carried Mr. Frazer iro
,bo Teheran to Koom, eighty -four miles, IN
ber bout ten hours. courier, whom MaJ
Of Keppel fell in with between kermansha i
, 4 and Hamdan, places one hundred ana 1--WE
md ty miles distant from each other, perform
nI- that Journey over n rugged mounte'ho
VS. track, in little more than twenty-t"ur hon'
nm and the next morning sat Oft on the sal
nd horse for Teheran, two hundred miles II
,af- ther, expecting to reach it on the seco
ry. day - l4--------
the Do.s NNopAis,S Pocket WHltedS,