20 BREEDING. 



for two or three of his get being beat at a 

 fubfequent Newmarket meeting, the vic- 

 torious fire foon fuperfedes the favourite, 

 who, falling into the back ground of the 

 pidlure, glides imperceptibly to an almoft 

 total oblivion. In fuch fiuftuation or fuc- 

 ceffion fubmits the fate of an Herod to an 

 Eclipfe, an Evergreen to a Swcetbrier^ and 

 a very long lift of etceteras to thofe reign- 

 ing favourites of the prefent day, Highjlyer 

 and Woodpecker^ the former of which hav- 

 ing produced thirty-nine winners of ninety- 

 one capital prizes, and the latter feventeen 

 winners of fifty-four, both in the year 1789 

 only, it will create no furprife that they at 

 prefent enjoy, under the funfhine of popular 

 influence, a more extenfive and beautiful 

 feragUo than any Arabian on earth has ever 

 had to boaft. 



Having ventured a few remarks upon 

 what I before termed exceptions to general 

 rules, or predominant opinions, it becomes 

 perfedly confiftent to ftrengthen a belief of 

 fuch poflibilities, by the recital of a direfh 

 contraft within my own knowledge and 

 perfeft remembrance, of a galloway that 



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