BREAKING. in 



earneftljr recommending this lenity in the 

 pradlice, has arifen from innumerable in- 

 Itances within my own know^ledge of horfes 

 rendered invinciby reftiflf by the dint of per- 

 petual ill ufage and unjuft opposition ; when 

 from the natural bent of their difpofitions, a 

 different mode of treatment would have pro- 

 duced a dired: contrary effed:. 



To this part of the fubjed I have ever 

 paid the greateft perfonal attention, and de- 

 clare, with the ftrideft adherence to truth, I 

 never yet faw a rejiiff horfe made better by 

 violence and abufe. If any vociferous dif- 

 putant, fond of difplaying his courage and 

 exerting his power, feels his innate cruelty in 

 fome degree abridged by the intervention of 

 humanity, and arrogantly afk, ** Whether he 

 is to abandon his pnrpofe, and permit the 

 horfe to gain the vidory and become his maf- 

 ter ?" I anfwer him with the greateft ferenity, 

 ** On no account whatever." Such is not 

 the purport of my recommendation ; our 

 intents are undoubtedly the fame, but to be 

 eventually accompliflied by very different 

 means ; I repeatedly urge the propriety of 

 due attention to the various tempers and dif- 

 pofitions 



