4 BREEDING. 



ftantly incrcafing circumfped:ion, to im^ 

 prove (if poflible) what abfolutely appears 

 to have already reached the very fummit of 

 perfed:ion : it xvill be readily conceived I 

 allude to the almoft incredible care and at- 

 tention bellowed upon the breed and ma- 

 nagement of our blood horfes for the turf, 

 at this moment efteemed equal (if not fupe-^ 

 rior) in fpeed^ bottom, and difcipline to any 

 other in the known world, particularly' iince 

 the fafhionable rage for Arabians has fo 

 gradually declined i 



Perfonal emulation amongfl: fome of the 

 firft charadlers in the three kingdoms for 

 near a century paft (with the moll unre- 

 mitting perfevcrance and pracflical experi- 

 ence of the fubordinate dalles, upon the ad-* 

 vantagcous croflcs in bloody bone^ fi^^p^^ make^ 

 and Jhength) has rendered Newmarket 

 not only the firft feat of Equeftrian cele^ 

 brity, but to a breeder and fportfmari^ one of 

 the moft enchanting fcenes the univerfe has 

 to produce. This part of the fpecies hav- 

 ing, imder fuch accumulated power and in- 

 duftry, attained the very pinnacle of pre- 

 eminence, nothing can be introduced to 



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