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our moft valuable Englifh breed) it is almoft 

 difficult to decide, which clafs contributes 

 moft to the profit of the breeder. I can- 

 not, however, in my own opinion, hefitate 

 a moment to pronounce the preference to 

 have fallen upon thofe that turn the fooneft 

 into fpecie : of thefe, for inftance, are 

 the beft bred blood Jlcck^ now in the higheft 

 and moft incredible ftate of cultivation ; the 

 common marketable prices of thefe, if of 

 the firft pedigrees, and brought to a promif- 

 ing fize when yearlings, are one hundred and 

 fifty guineas for colts^ and one hundred for 

 Jillies, at which they pafs current, provided 

 they are croffed in blood from any of the 

 ftallions whofe celebrity we have before had 

 occafion to mention. 



Without enlarging upon this fort of fport- 

 ing fpeculation, I fliall only obferve, that 

 under certain regulations and very nice dif- 

 tindtion, with great care and unremitting at- 

 tention, this may prove a much more profit- 

 able mode of breeding for thofe who wifli 

 to afcertain a fixed emolument, (without 

 hazarding the lofs of a certainty in breaking, 

 training, racing, &c,) as is the prudent 



practice 



