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continued with fafliionable crofles to the 

 end of time. 



It is hardly poffible for one little acquainted 

 with the culroms and manners of the turf 

 to .conceive, how the decifion of a fmgle 

 match or fweepftakes alters the properties 

 and value of a ftallion, whofe reputation 

 is placed (in blood and performance) upon 

 the fummit of eminence ; for fhould fome 

 ©f the firft of his get that ftart fortunately 

 become winners, fuch circumflance inftantly 

 enhances his fuperiority to a degree of 

 enthufiafm, and more bufinefs. being marked 

 out for him in the ad: of procreation than 

 nature is equal to, his number of mares are 

 Gonfequentiy limited, and he becomes im- 

 mediately an objed: of great annual emolu- 

 ment, feveral inftances having occurred in 

 the laft twenty years, where different ftal- 

 lions have produced to their owners five and 

 twenty hundred pounds in one feafon. 



But in this ftate of acknowdedged ex- 

 cellence and fuperiority, they are ftill fub- 

 ject to the Verfatility of chance, and one 

 ''unlucky flep forever da?nn5 their f Lime \' 



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