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your girths, one over the other, ftill bear ex- 

 actly alike ; that the pad be not rucked up ; 

 but above all, that your faddle ftands exactly 

 level upon the horfe's back. I have known ca- 

 pital grooms, in the fervice of fporting gentle- 

 men, fo carelefs in placing a faddle, that it has 

 abfolutely worn awry, and would never ftand 

 even afterwards. 



In jouRNEY-riding, every perfon ought to 

 know, that no great performances are to be ex- 

 petted from a hack, which is not in thorough 

 condition. If he has been lately from grafs, or 

 flraw-yard, or has been kept within, upon the 

 faving plan of abridging his food in proportion 

 to his work (a favourite meafure with fome 

 people) he will receive damage from a long 

 journey, however good he may be in nature : 

 in fuch cafe, from thirty, to five-and-forty miles, 

 is a fufficient day's work. If his journeys are 

 to be continued, from twenty to thirty-five 

 miles per day, will be found enough ; and in 

 fuch moderate work, with good keep, that is to 

 fay, at lead a peck and a quarter of corn every 

 day, the horfe may improve in condition. 



With refpeel to the capital performances of 

 our firlt-rate Englifli hacknies, I have, I be- 

 lieve, known fome few, capable of travelling 

 one hundred and twenty miles in twelve hours; 

 but fuch excelrive trefpafles upon the vital 

 powers of the animal, are cruel and unjuft ; and 



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