M BREEDING. 



our most valuable English breed) it is almost 

 difficult to decide, which class contributes 

 most to the profit of the breeder. I cannot, 

 however, in my own opinion, hesitate a mo- 

 ment to pronounce the preference to have 

 fallen upon those that turn the soonest into 

 specie: of these, for instance, are the best 

 bred blood stock, now in the highest and 

 most incredible state of cultivation ; the 

 common marketable prices of these, if of the 

 first pedigrees, and brought to a promising 

 size when yearlings, are one hundred and fifty 

 guineas for coifs, and one hundred for Jillies, 

 at which they pass current, provided they 

 are crossed in blood from any of the stallions 

 whose celebrity we have before had occasion 

 to mention. 



Without enlarging upon this sort of sport- 

 ing speculation, I shall only observe, that 

 under certain regulations, and very nice dis- 

 tinction, with great care and unremitting at- 

 tention, this may prove a much more profit- 

 able mode of breeding for those who wish 

 to ascertain a fixed emolument, (without 

 hazardmg the loss of a certainty in breakings 

 trainings racings &c.) as is the prudent 



