16 BREEDING. 



progeny have degenerated in almost ever^ 

 point from sire and dam ; but the rapid suc- 

 cession of one capital Jiorse upon another, 

 (season after season) would render the names 

 of such as might nozo be ynentioned^ a matter 

 of oblivion to future readers, and prove to 

 them little or nothing of an opinion we wish 

 to establish beyond the power of contradic- 

 tion. 



So much chance appertains to the act of 

 breeding for the Turf, that one lucky get 

 very frequently constitutes a Stallion of 

 Fashion, to which the rage of future sea- 

 sons becomes incredibly subservient ; innu- 

 merable instances might be quoted in proof 

 of this sporting credulity, but we will con- 

 tract the number to such only as are too emi- 

 nent in their stock ever to be forgotten, so 

 long as the pedigrees of " great, great, great, 

 great, great grand dams and gjcand-sires" 

 shall be transmitted to posterity. 



It is now within the memory of hun- 

 dreds upon the turf, that old Marsk (a most 

 Capital runner of his time) covered in Wind- 

 sor Forest and its neighbourhood, a very- 

 great number of mares so low as half a 



