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may be found in the *' Racing Calendar,^' {o 

 long as it (hall retain a place in the fporting 

 libraries. 



Circumflances of this kind happen, how- 

 ever, fo very rarely, that inftrudlion§ refped:- 

 ing cafualties remote and unlikely, might 

 be deemed fLiperfiuous, did not a vindication 

 immediately arife from the exulting confola- 

 tion of knowing by what means to encounter 

 . fuch difficulties whenever they occur. 



Returning therefore to the ad of foaling, 

 which, as before obferved, getter ally happe/is 

 w^ithout the leaft danger or difficulty, and 

 nine times cut of ten in the night, it be- 

 comes the bufinefs of the owner or fuper- 

 intendant to difpofe the mare in fuch place 

 of fafety, that mifchief is at leaft not likely 

 to enfue; and this caution may prove the 

 more acceptable, when it is recollected by 

 every breeder, fportfman, or refident in the 

 country, how very comm.on it is in the fea- 

 fon to hear of foals being; f mothered in a 

 ditch, or drowned in a rivulet, to the pcffibi- 

 lity of which, the attention of the inadvertent 

 F 2 ov/ner 



