2 BREEDING. 



to be confidcred the dclufive efFed: of fpe- 

 culative rumination, but the refult of long 

 perfonal experience and attentive obfervatioa 

 among horfes in my own poffeffion. from 

 brood mares and cohs to every defcription, 

 whether for the Turf, Field, Road^ or Draft, 



Although fome of the fubjefls upon which 

 w-e proceed to treat, may have been flightly 

 mentioned by writers who have gone before 

 tjs, it is generally known to have been in 

 fo fuperficial and unconnected a way, that 

 little information or inftrud;ion could be 

 at all gleaned from their endeavours ; a 

 few loofe hints upon each having been 

 digreffively obtruded, or indifcriminately 

 introduced, amidft topics to which they did 

 not bear the jeaft allufion, and from whence 

 conclufions of the fmalleft utility could 

 never be drawn. 



Thefe errors it has been the principal 

 deiign to corred:, by reducing to dijl'indl heads ^ 

 all fuch obfervations and remarks as confti- 

 tute the body of the work, and arc intended 

 as incentives to general improvement upon 

 the great variety of iiibjects we fliall en- 

 deavour 



