ON THE HACKNEY AND HUNTER. I73 



Thus, greys and browns, fpot and ftain very, 

 much, with the dirt and fweat, and are made 

 dry and clean with great difficulty ; the ftains 

 remaining longer upon them, than on other 

 colours. Light greys, nutmeg-coloured horfes, 

 and red roans, if well-bred, perhaps exhibit 

 that fymmetry to the beft advantage, which is 

 the concomitant of high-racing blood. The 

 latter never fail to remind fportfmen of the old 

 fchool, of the famous Sedbury, faid to have 

 been the jufteft proportioned horfe ever bred 

 in England; on this head an exception mud be 

 made in refpe& to the legs and hoofs of Horfes, 

 which conltant experience has {hewn to be 

 beft. when of a dark colour. 



For their temperaments, both mental and 

 corporeal, the drifted analogy may be found 

 in the human fpecies. We obferve among 

 Horfes, the hot, irritable, and weak; the cold, 

 phlegmatic, flow, and durable; with all the 

 various intermediate gradations. It can be 

 only by way of refreshing the memory of his 

 readers, when an author prefumes to counfel 

 them, to make choice of a medium. 



Hot horfes are generally fpeedy and fafe 

 goers, pleafant to ride, the beft flying leapers, 

 and their legs ftand clean and dry, in the 

 ftable; but (hort and eafy tafks, of all kinds, fuit 

 them beft; they are unfit to carry heavy 

 weights, and if they feed well when they play, 



they 



