ON THE HACKNEY AND HUNTER. 165 



Jittle or no racing-blood, and calculated for 

 thofe fervices in which much fpeed is not re- 

 quired. Hack, or Hackney, is the general 

 term for a road-horfe, and by no means con- 

 veys any fenfe of inferiority, or refers exclu- 

 fively to horfes let out for hire. By trotters, 

 we do not underftand now, as formerly, horfes 

 which have been merely accuftomed to that 

 pace, but fuch as excel at it, in refpecl: of 

 fpeed ; a fimilar obfervation holds, refpeHing 

 canterers, but it ufually refers to their powers 

 of continuance. Gallopers mean race-horfes. 

 The terms galloway and poney, refer folely to 

 height. All under thirteen hands, are denomi- 

 nated ponies ; from that height to thirteen 

 three, they are called galloways ; at fourteen 

 hands they are deemed fized horfes. Of foals, 

 the male is called a colt-foal, the female a filly- 

 foal, yearlings, two-year-old, &c. 



In the technical phrafeology appropriated to 

 this fubject., a bred horfe is underftood to be 

 one of the pure racing, or Oriental blood ; the 

 degrees of its commixture with the common 

 blood, or breed of this country, are fignified by 

 the terms, three-parts bred, half-bred, blood- 

 horfes, or having a mew of blood. 



The characleriftic figns of blood, are finenefs 

 of fkin and hair, fymmetry, and regularity of 

 proportions ; length ; flatnefs, and depth, par- 

 ticularly in the moulder and girting-place ; 

 fwell of the mufcles, and fhew of fubftance in 



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