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of fpeed and bottom, between young horfes 

 calculated and trained for racing : but horfes 

 (as well as women) are, by the great and il- 

 lumined effed: of modern penetration, found 

 to be fo much forwarder in the 7jatural Jlate 

 ©f their conftitution, that they are brought 

 into ufe many years fooner in the pre fen t 

 than the paft century ; having not now only 

 plates conftantly run for by three years old, 

 but frequent matches and fweepftakes with 

 two years old and yearlings. 



In this general improvement (if it can be 

 fo termed) I believe any obfervant or experi- 

 enced reader will coincide with me in opinion, 

 and hazard the affertion, that many hundred 

 horfes are annually crippled and irrecoverably 

 injured before they arrive at maturity ; that 

 is, before they arrive at a proper age for the 

 work to which they are fo frequently moft 

 injudicioufly deftined. In fupport of this 

 fad:, no greater or more indifputable author 

 rity need be adduced, than a reference to the 

 infinity of invalids to be daily feen on all the 

 popular roads leading to the metropolis ; but 

 Ihould a ftronger proof be required, to meet 

 the opinions of the intercfied and incradulous,, 



let 



