100 ON THE HORSE IN GENERAL.' 



yet if the mare be defective and faulty, there 

 can be no juft reafon to expeft the produce 

 will be perfect. Not a kw of our Horfes 

 clearly evince, by their appearance, the proba- 

 bility of inheriting their numerous defects, both 

 from fire and dam. I am forry to remark, that 

 thefe ftriclures, not only apply to our general 

 run of cafual breeders throughout the country, 

 but in a great meafure alfo, to the confiderable 

 ones of the northern, ufually fly led the breeding 

 counties; and the reader will find thefe fen- 

 timents confirmed in the Yorkshire Tour of 

 the elegant and enlightened Mr. Marfhall. 



It remits from thefe premifes, that our in- 

 telligent breeders have brought the Horfes of 

 this country to a fufficient, or rather perhaps 

 to the higheft degree of perfection. The fined 

 models of all denominations, both for beauty 

 and ufe, are to be found in England. All 

 that is now wanted, is a transfer of the bulk 

 of the bufinefs of the ftud, from ignorant to 

 intelligent hands ; the certain confequence of 

 which fortunate change would be, as great a 

 plenty, as there is now a fcarcity, of good 

 Horfes. There are, it is true, a formidable 

 holt of difcouratnn^ circumflances in the train 

 of the belt concerted breeding plan, even 

 where there is an ample range of proper land. 

 The capital required to go into it, to any 

 extent, is confiderable ; the requifite attention 



great 



