ON THE HACKNEY AND HUNTER. ljl 



racing breed, they with their neighbour county- 

 Suffolk, have fupplied the metropolis of late 

 years with faddle-horfes of fuperior form and 

 eftimation to thofe of Yorkfliire. 



The reafonings of this excellent author, 

 owing merely to the caufe already hinted, are 

 not a whit more conclufive, on the fubjecr. of 

 race-horfes ; of which more in its place. 



St. Bel alfo, afks very gravely for a folution 

 of the difficulty, why Suffolk has a peculiar 

 breed of horfes, and why they cannot be 

 bred elfewhere? Experience teaches there is 

 no difficulty at all in the cafe. Any other 

 county having made choice of, and fet off 

 originally with that peculiar fpecies (there lies 

 the jet of the bufinefs, I believe) would have 

 all along produced much fuch another breed, 

 varying in a trifling degree, from local cir- 

 cumftances. I know of no county in England, 

 in which I would not pledge myfelf to produce 

 a race of Suffolk horfes, [o original in all 

 refpecls, as to defy the penetration of the 

 beft jockies of that county. But it muff be 

 effected, by a more perfect method, than that 

 which I have known praclifed by perfons 

 refident in fome of thole, which are faid not to 

 be breeding counties. They have been defirous 

 of breeding the lar^e black cart horfes, but 

 after repeated trials, have relinquifhed it, from 

 an alledged impoffibility of bringing them up 

 to the required fize ; and yet their grafs land 



has 



