20 BREEDING. 



for two or three of his get being beat at a- 

 subsequent Newmarket meeting, the vic- 

 torious sire soon supersedes the favourite^ 

 who falHng into the back ground of the 

 picture, ghdes imperceptibly to an ahnost 

 total obUvion. In such fluctuation or suc- 

 cession submits the fate of an Herod to an 

 Eclipse, an Evergreen to a Szceetbriar, and 

 a very long list of etceteras to those reigning 

 favourites of the present day, Higliflyer 

 and Woodpecker ; the former of which having 

 produced thirty-niue winners of ninety- 

 one capital prizes, and the latter seventeen 

 whinners of fifty-four, both \\\ the year 1789 

 only, it will create no surprize that they at 

 present enjoy, under the sunshine of popular 

 influence, a more extensive and beautiful 

 seraglio than any Arabian on earth has ever 

 had to boast. 



Having ventured a few remarks upon 

 what I before termed exceptions to general 

 rules, or predominant opinions, it becomes 

 perfectly consistent to strengthen a belief of 

 such possibilities, by the recital of a direct 

 contrast within my own knowledge, and 

 perfect remembrance, of a galloway that 



