BREAKING„ 107 



with much less trouble, expense, and anxiety, 

 than when kept so long upon hand before 

 they could be taken to market^ 



This has turned so much to advantage in 

 their annual transfer to the London dealers, 

 who purchase at the famous fairs of Banbury, 

 Northampton, Leicester, Reading, and many 

 others, (exchisive of their extensive agencies 

 in Yorlyshire and other distant counties) that 

 they are now broke and sold ^s soon as they' 

 have obtained size, and undergo the most in- 

 famous practices upon their teeth, to enable 

 flie conscientious seller to dispose of two^ 

 three, four-year old, for 2i Jour, Jive, or six; 

 which he frequently does with such assure 

 ^nces of truth and integrity, that the cheat is 

 very little likejy to be discovered by any sa- 

 gacity or circumspection whatever, 



A similar degree of refinement has been 

 effected upon the turf, as with the more in- 

 ferior classes ; for what lias been promoted 

 by interest on one hand, has been extended 

 by the invincible spirit of opposition on the 

 . other. It is but a few years since a four year 

 pld plate was considered the first pubiic trial 



