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formances may be found in the '^ Racing 

 Calendar,'' so long as it shall retain a place in 

 the sporting libraries. 



Circumstances of this kind happen, how- 

 ever, so very rarely, that instructions respect- 

 ing casualties, remote and unlikely, might be 

 deemed superfluous, did not a vindication 

 immediately arise from the exulting consola- 

 tion of knowing by what means to encoun- 

 ter such ditificulties whenever they occur. 



Returning, therefore, to the act of foaling, 

 which, as before observed, generally happens 

 without the least danger or difficulty, and 

 nine times out of ten in the night, it be- 

 comes the business of the owner or super- 

 intendant, to dispose the mare in such place 

 of safety, that mischief is at least not likely 

 to ensue ; and this caution may prove the 

 more acceptable, when it is recollected by 

 every breeder, sportsman, or resident in the 

 country, how very common it is in the sea- 

 son to hear of foals beini^j smothered in a 

 ditch, or droivned in a rivulet, to the possible 

 lity of xvhich, the attention of the inadvertent 



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