| Heats. | |||
| Mr. G. Crompton's | b. c. | Warter, | 5 0 5 1 0 1. |
| Sir C. Turner's | ch. c. | Pepper-Pot, | 3 0 1 5 0 2. |
| Sir F. Standish's | br. c. | Stamford, | 1 3 6 2 Dr. |
| Mr. Wentworth's | b. c. | Cardinal, | 2 5 2 3. |
| Lord H. Hamilton's | b. c. | by Trumpator, | 7 4 4 4. |
| Mr. T. Hutchinson's | Hipswell, | 6 6 3 Dr. | |
| Mr. Sitwell's | ch. c. | Commodore, | 4 Dr. |
The odds at starting were 5 to 2 against Stamford, 3 to 1 against Cardinal, and 5 to 1 against Warter: during the different heats, and at the termination of each, the bettings varied exceedingly.
In 1798 he won 50l. at Preston, beating three others. Two days after, at the same place, he won 50l. at four heats, beating the famous Patriot (by Rockingham) and another; and 50l. at Doncaster. In 1799, then Mr. Heathcoate's, he won the main of the Oatlands, 100 guineas each, beating Oscar, and the then celebrated Diamond; and 50 guineas at Newmarket; the gold cup at Stamford; 50l. at Oxford; and the King's Plates at Burford and Litchfield. In 1800 he won 250 guineas, and 100 guineas, at Newmarket. In 1801, first Spring Meeting, he beat Jack Andrews three miles over the Beacon Course for 200 guineas each. The same year, when Lord Sackville's, he won the King's Plate at Guildford; the same at Winchester; and 200 guineas at Brighton. In 1802, in the Craven Meeting at Newmarket, he won a sweepstakes of 100 guineas each, beating Cockfighter and Hippona. At Bibury, a sweepstakes of 25 guineas each, seven subscribers; and is since withdrawn from the turf, and announced as a stallion at Cottesmore, in the county of Rutland, at three guineas a mare, and half a guinea the groom.
WARTS
—are spongy excrescences, sometimes appearing upon different parts of the body, and in great numbers: they are exceedingly difficult of instrumental extirpation; for, from their being critically seated, profuse bleeding might probably follow. This mode of operation becomes the less necessary, because a moistening of the surface once in three days, with butter of Antimony, will effect certain obliteration, without the least inconvenience, even upon the eye-lids, which are of equal or superior irritability with any other part of the body.
WASP
.—See "Venomous Bites."
WATERING
.—Upon the proper and confident mode of watering a horse, his health in some degree (but more particularly his condition) principally depends. During a journey in the summer, as well as in a stable in the winter, some attention is necessary to both the quality and quantity of water a horse is permitted to indulge in. There are fixed rules with systematic sportsmen, from which there is never the slighted deviation, but when circumstances may compulsively occasion a temporary variation: the most important of these are, never to let a horse drink cold water when he is hot; or to give him pump or well water, when river or rain water can be obtained. The difference of effect between the two may (particularly in the winter months) be immediately observed by those who chuse to make the experiment: hard spring water is frequently known, from its chilling frigidity, to occasion severe and dangerous fits of the cholic; and when it has not that effect, it never fails to check the circulation; producing such an instantaneous collapsion of the pores, that the coat, though fine a few minutes before, becomes as rough and staring, as if the horse had been exposed to the inclemency of the winter season. Horses kept for the sports of the field, and in a state of condition superior to those employed on more common occasions, are usually watered with a pail in the stable; but this should never be done till hay has been previously placed in the rack; and the act of watering should be instantly followed by the usual ceremony of substantial dressing, wisping, and brushing over, to prevent either of the two inconveniencies before described. The old and ridiculous custom of taking a horse to a pond, that he may have a gallop "to warm the water in his belly," seems to be nearly abolished with the more enlightened part of the world; and although the practice is persevered in upon the turf, it is to be observed, that those horses are restricted in quantity; and that they are walked for some time after drinking, previous to what is termed their watering gallop.