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ECLIPSE AND THE USE OF THE WHIP. In a room I occupied the other day when staying in a country house, one of the nicest pictures | have ever seep of the famous Kclipse was banging on the walls. This was a colored engraving by Clinics Until of Stubb"s picture of the horse being led out of a stable by an attendant wearing the royal liver] the piciuie eertalaly shows Eclipse as a charming horse to look at. and the letterpress below slates thai in- was aever beaten, ami that he was never touched with spur or whip. This is worth hearing in mind. Il would mean. I am convinced, that ninetj nine horses inn of every hundred would run more true to form if they never felt the abominable whip. In some few Instances punishment may help bill no races produce more reliable results than those contined t.. apprentices wherein whips are not allowed. The number of nor st « win-., eoange and tempera tire ruined by the misuse of the whip mi Hie part of si, called jockeys, whose only idea of persuading an animal t- do his Im-sI is to slash it with the Mail, is something appalling. Keiurn-ing to lalipse. which was f...-iled on April 1. 17C,4. the day of a famous eclipse of the sun hence his name, he undoubtedly stood out alone as the best of his day. but I have no sort of doubt that one of our most moderate platers of today would easily defeat him over a nifle curse. — Amiax in London Horse and Hound.
