BREEDING. ii 



ing four or five years for the fruit of their 

 expectation to attain perfedtion, the prodigy 

 has been unavoidably doomed to the drudgery 

 of a .butcher's tray, or the market cart of 

 Ibme induflrious mjechanic. 



To this defcription of breeders, who are 

 continually promoting the propagation ot 

 the fpecies, without a fingle coniillcnt idea, 

 or relative confideration to the neceffary re- 

 quifites of country and keep^ or qualifica- 

 tions oi fire and dam^ (with an additional 

 prepofiefiion in favour of certain ridiculous 

 croffes) are we indebted for the infinity of 

 horfes annually produced in almoft every 

 (improper) part of the kingdom, that from 

 want of fliape, make, bone, fize, and ftrength 

 are of no proportional value to the expenfe 

 they have occafioned ; they can pafs under 

 no diftind: denomination, are applicable to 

 no particular purpofe, but become an expen- 

 five burden to the owners, who, too fre- 

 quently fond of their own production, fix an 

 imaginary value upon their imperje^ions, and 

 year after year permit them to confume food 

 snd fodder that might evidently be appro- 

 priated 



