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of the commercial world could not withftand 

 the force of temptation ; to have a horfe 

 or two IN TRAINING has been an object 

 of the higheft ambition, to the gratification 

 of which, every other profpedt or purfuit has 

 been rendered fubfervient. The contagion 

 ha^ been in its effects fo delufive, that Lot- 

 tery Office- keepers and Pawnbrokers have 

 been racing againft the horfes of Peers of the 

 realm, to the inevitable accumulation of 

 DEBTS, the defrauding of creditors, and 

 the promoting of bankruptcies. This 

 is not calculated to create furprife, when it is 

 not only recollcdled in rumination, but con- 

 firmed by time and experience, that nothing 

 but a fortune of immxniity can ftand againit 

 the enormous cxpenfe of breeding and 

 TRAINING; the fludluating uncertainty of 

 the produce; and laftly, what is ftill more 

 to be dreaded, the innate villainy and jludied 

 deception of the fubordinate clafles, with whom 

 your honour and property are eventually 

 entrufted ; and upon whole caprice, intereft, 

 villainy^ or integrity^ you muft unavoidably 

 depend, to carry your purpofes into execu- 

 tion. 



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