Related article: chased silver bulbs, and the extra- ordinary orbicular butts, also of silver, chased and embossed, have a ring on the under side. The thongs are adorned with fringed leather tufts. These whips were given at the end of the last cen- tury by the King of Holland to * " "^ " '^ , ^ „ the winners of the driving races IJ,Sut« four.ho.se wh,pn«.de for H« j^j j^ ^ f. ^^^^^^^ ^f Maiesly s Coronalion and repeated for the ^ i-f ■ -c ■ 1 j il Jubilee, 1887. C reptesenis a sLIk-braided country hfe m Friesland ; they were poslillion whip used lor the creams on the in fact equivalent to OUr Royal same occasions. E and Buy Cheap Disulfiram ¥ represent Stale Plates, and WCrC given tO enCOUr- whips as used by lome of the Indian ^g^ j^jg breeding of trotting horses - 322 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [November for which Friesland was, and is, famous. One of these whips bears date 1791 and a name (illegible) obviously that of the proud winner and the year of his success ; another is dated 1798. It will not be out of place to refer to the driving races for which these quaintly shaped whips were the prizes. Edmondo di Amicis in his work "Holland" (1874) says : — On our way back to Leuwarde we met some peasant's carts drawn by those famous Friesland horses, which are considered the best trotters in the world. They are black with long necks, heads small and full of 6re. . . . The races in which these horses run, called the harddraveryen^ are very characteristic relics of ancient Frisia. In every small town an arena is prepared •divided into two parallel straight roads on which the horses run in pairs and succes- sively, after which the winners run each against the other till one is victor over all and wins the prize. From this account it would seem that the competing horses were " drawn " in couples on the same lines as greyhounds for a coursing match. Jockeys prefer a racing whip with a small button, whereas gen- tlemen riders prefer a '* high button," or, in plain language, a mushroom- shaped one. A jockey's whip should be very stiflf. A ** knout " usually has a bone handle, and sometimes only a wooden one ; a leather flap acts as a substitute for a thong. French whips are remarkably pretty, but, according to our in- sular prejudices, they are fanciful and have not the wearing qualities of English ones. Both French and German drivers hold whips high up, and consequently require longer sticks than those we use. All whips used in State processions -come to a great deal of money, because the handles are elabo- rately braided with gilt wire and silk. The thong for a tandem Generic Disulfiram is generally twelve feet long, on a stick five feet three inches in length. Team whips are a little heavier and have a thong thirteen to fourteen feet in length, and a stick about five feet one inch. 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The explanation is simple enough. Not one lady in a hundred has been taught to handle any kind of whip in a professional manner, and without a proper training nobody can excel in any accom- plishment. To be able to *• flick a fly off your leader's ear Purchase Disulfiram " is a feat which the dashing hero in a sporting yellow-back can do with- out difficulty, but those used to horses will agree that in life a man who can disturb a fly, apart from actually hitting it, with the point of his lash, is not an unhandy whip ; for whoever can give one of his team a reminder on the exact spot he wishes to can usually drive with his reins. On the other hand, it by no means 1900.] , WHI follows that a coachman who can turn a difficult corner with leaders that run well up to their bits, is able to neatly use his whip over hot wheelers and jibbing leaders. The famous Newmarket Chal- lenge Whip, to which passing reference was made on a pre^'ious page, was originally the property of Thomas Leonard, Lord Dacre, whose arms are engraved upon it. Lord Dacre was created Earl of Sussex in 1674 by Charles II. ; this young gentleman held some appointment at court, and " going the pace " after the fashion of his age, tost his money and part of his estates by gambling. It is believed that he gave the whip as a trophy to be run for at New- market ; he died in 1715, and the first recorded race for the " Chal- lenge Whip" came off in 1756, when Mr. Fenwick challenged, naming Matchem by Cade, and easily won from Mr. Bowles' Trajan. In 1764 H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland won it with Dumplin. 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