124 BREAKING. 



part of the country ; from whose sober sys- 

 tem of instruction their subject must cer- 

 tainly derive every necessary advantage. 



Without descending to a tedious enume- 

 ration of the injuries colts in breaking, or 

 horses in exercise, receive from pretended 

 breakers or worthless grooms under the effect 

 of intoxication, I return to the subject of 

 those that are restive or addicted to starting', 

 the general mismanagement of which I have 

 already described without at all heigtUening 

 the picture to a degree of exaggeration, and 

 have now to add, that upon a v/ell- founded 

 opinion of the inconsistency of such severe 

 treatment, I first fornied my determination 

 to encounter the cure of those defects, by 

 a method directly opposite, whenever time 

 should alTord me applicable opportunity. 



It is, I must acknowledge, some little gra^- 

 tification of personal ambition, to have suc- 

 ceeded so wei! in a coniirmation of the opin- 

 ion I liad indulged, respecting the erroneous 

 and cruel treatment of horses of such de- 

 scription ; and v. ith no triOing satisfaction I 

 communicate the fact, of having been pos^: 



