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progen}'' have degenerated in aim oft every 

 point from lire and dam ; but the rapid fuc- 

 ceflion of one capital horfe upon another, 

 (feafon after feafon) would render the names 

 of fuch as might now be mentioned, a matter 

 of oblivion to future readers, and prove to 

 them little or nothing of an opinion wc 

 tvifh to eftablifh beyond the power of con- 

 tradidlion* 



So much chance appertains to the ad; of 

 breeding for the Turf, that one lucky get 

 very frequently conftitutes a Stallion of 

 Fashion, to which the rage of future fea- 

 fons becomes incredibly fubfervient ; innu- 

 merable inftances might be quoted in proof 

 of this fporting credulity, but we will con- 

 trail the number to fuch only as are too 

 eminent in their flock ever to be forgotten, 

 fo long as the pedigrees of *' great, great, 

 great, great, great grand dams and grand- 

 fires" fhall be tranfmitted to pollerity. 



It is now within the memory of hun^ 

 dreds upon the turf, that old Marjk (a moft 

 capital runner of his time) covered in Wind- 

 for Foreft .and its neighbourhood, a very 

 great number of mares fo low as half a 



guinea 



