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and regulator of all our saddle and coaching stock, and by a sort of 

 general tacit convention, they have certain portions of it; more Avould 

 do harm, by rendering the nag too delicate and leggy, and spoiling his 

 trot; less would render him coarse, sluggish and unfashionable. Thus 

 I have generally found it preferable, to put a hackney mare to a good 

 reputed hackney stallion, rather than to a racer, unless the mare were 

 too coarse and wanted blood. You thus proceed safely, and on already 

 improved ground : if you have recourse to racing, carting, or rough 

 unimproved stock, you are losing time and going backward. It is true 

 that a good hack, hunter or coach horse, might be produced from the 

 conjunctions, either of the cart mare with the race hoi'se, or the racing 

 mare with a cart horse; and I have experienced some,'and seen more such 

 successful instances; but they are, at no rate, generally eligible crosses. 



Our present varieties of the Horse, and their denominations, are as 

 follow : — 



The racer, eace-horse or running horse ; the hunter ; the 

 charger ; the heavy and light troop horse ; the hack, hackney, 

 ROADSTER, ROAD HORSE or CHAPMAN'S HORSE: a cloddy, compact horse, 

 or gelding of this description, is now and then styled a Cobb. The lady's 



HORSE, or PAD; THE COACH-HORSE, CHARIOT, and CURRICLE-HORSE; GIG- 

 HORSE or CHAISE-HORSE; THE MACHIiNER and POST-HACK; THE CART and 

 DRAY HORSE, GALLOWAYS, PONIES. 



On breeding the racer, I shall say a few words under that particular 

 head. The hunter, is either a thorough-bred Horse of sufficient sub- 

 stance, or one with a considerable shew of blood, and with good action; 

 for example, got by a racer out of a half-bred, or three-part-bred mare ; 

 or any horse, mare, or gelding of sufficient powers and action. Such, 

 with litttle or no shew of blood, have sold as hunters,at very high prices; 

 but they are unfit for a light country, where it is generally the fashion to 

 ride bred hunters, which consequently go too fast for the common- 

 bred Horse. 



The charger, I have observed, is often a foreign Horse; they are 

 from Germany chiefly, shew southern blood, and it is not altogether 

 easy to assign a reason why they never have so much speed as our 

 English Horses with the same degree of blood. It must be allowed, 



that 



