OF FARRIERY. 



503 



Horse from a dealer's stable is seldom or never 

 fit for hard work until he has undergone some 

 preparation and training. It is right that the 

 purchaser should have a trial of him, but he 

 should try him in a fair way ; in a way con- 

 sistent with the state in which the animal is. 

 If a Horse from a dealer's stable is gallopped 

 far and fast, it is probable that he will soon 

 show distress ; and if he is pushed farther, 

 inflammation and death may ensue. The 

 dealer rarely gets compensated for this ; and if 

 it should occur soon after the sale, the Horse 

 is returned, or an action is brought for its 

 price. When accidents have arisen in the 

 fair trial of a Horse, the decisions of the courts 

 of law have been strangely contradictory ; 

 and, indeed, it is often difficult to determine 

 whether the fault rests with the Horse or the 

 rider. If the Horse be detained after the 

 specified time of trial, he is supposed to be 

 sold, and with all his faults. 



SALE AT REPOSITORIES. 



In London, and in most great towns, there 

 are repositories for the periodical sale of Horses 

 by auction. They are of great convenience 

 to the seller, who can at once get rid of a 

 Horse with which he wishes to part, without 

 waiting month after month before he obtains 

 a purchaser, and who is relieved from the 

 nuisance or fear of having the Horse returned 

 on account of breach of the warranty, because 

 in these places only two days are allowed for 

 the trial, and if the Horse is not returned 

 within that period, he cannot be returned 

 afterwards. They are also convenient to the 

 purchaser, who can thus in a large town soon 

 lind a Horse that will suit him, and which, 

 from this restriction as to the returnins: the 

 animal, he will obtain twenty or thirty per 



cent, below the dealer's prices. Although 

 an auction may seem to offer a fair open com- 

 petition, there is no place at which it is more 

 necessary for a person not much accustomed 

 to Horses to take witii him an experienced 

 friend, and when there to depend on his own 

 judgment or that of his friend, heedless of the 

 observations or manoeuvres of the by-standers, 

 the exaggerated commendations of some 

 Horses, and thousand faults found with 

 others. There are alwajs numerous groups 

 of low dealers, copers, and chaunters, whose 

 business it is to delude and deceive. 



The principal repositories in London, are 

 Tattersall's, at Hyde Park Corner, on Monday 

 and Thursday, at one o'clock, for racers, 

 hunters, and superior Horses of every kind, 

 although many that are good for nothing find 

 their way there. This repository is con- 

 sidered the most fashionable resort for the 

 nobility and gentlemen connected vvith tiie 

 turf 



Harlinfir's at the Bazaar in Kino- Street 

 Portman Square, on Tuesday and Saturday, 

 at twelve o'clock, for Horses of every descrip- 

 tion ; and where, likewise. Horses are always 

 standing for private sale. 



Dixon's, in Barbican, for machiners of every 

 kind, and generally the best of them, with 

 good hackneys. 



Aldridge's in St. Martin's Lane, for draught 

 Horses and hackneys of every description and 

 value. 



Horses should be sent two days before the 

 sale ; and it should be so contrived, in order 

 to obtain the greatest advantage for sale, that 

 they should be placed about or beyond the 

 middle of the catalogue ; so that they may 

 be brought out when those persons who lie 

 abed until after noon, begin to appear. If the 



