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cally, to produce ftock of fliape, ftrength, 

 figure, falhidn, bone, or fpeed, (according 

 to the purpofes for which they are defigned) 

 there will ftill remain a more than moderate 

 proportion of the breeders formerly defcribed, 

 who muft inevitably continue to propagate 

 ftock, not worth the proper fupport of even 

 the firft twelve months, was their intrinfic 

 value to be brought into arbitrative competi- 

 tion with the year's confumption. 



No doubt can be entertained but the fweeteft 

 hay, with a daily portion of the hulled oats, 

 and a trifling addition of the be^n meal, would 

 be as perfedly grateful to the weaning foal of 

 a five pound pony 7nare as to the palat-e of a 

 fon of Highflyer ; but it is natural to con- 

 clude, in the prefent hourly increaling age of 

 fagacity and penetration, felf-interej}^ with 

 its concomitants, will never be fo totally ob- 

 fcured, as not to regulate the condud: of the 

 majority, and that mares and colts will in 

 general be fupporjed with a political reference 

 to proft and lofs, however fome exceptions 

 (with favourites of a former defcription) may 

 produce many a four-year old at the dome!- 

 tic expenfe of t/oirty, forty ^ or ffty pounds^ 



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