94- ON THE CECONOMY OF THE STABLE^ 



procuring abortion, but it had that efFeft too 

 furely, and the mare was never thoroughly 

 recovered of the fhock her conftitution receiv- 

 ed, notwithftanding my long and careful atten- 

 tion. The old farriers had a flill more inhu- 

 man method of manual extirpation of the 

 foetus. 



Perhaps no part of our Englifh ftable-ma- 

 nege, is fo liable to cenfure, as the common 

 method of treatment (hewn to covering stal- 

 lions. The importance of the high-bred 

 ones, will not be doubted by any one who will 

 give himfelf the trouble to enquire into the 

 prices fometimes offered for them, or the an- 

 nual fum produced by fuch ^s are of eftablifhed 

 repute. Eleven thoufand guineas was the fum 

 offered at Newmarket by Earl Grofvenor, as 

 I underftand, for Echpfe; and afterwards, in 

 London, another offer of fix thoufand, was 

 made for the half (hare of him, both which 

 were refufed by Captain O'Kelly ; whofe de- 

 mand for the purchafe of hi? horfe, was twenty 

 thoufand pounds down, a well fecured annuity 

 of five hundred for his own life, and three 

 brood mares. The price offered for Shark, by 

 the fame noble lord, has been already mention- 

 ed. Matchem earned his owner more than 

 twenty thoufand guineas, and both Herod and 

 Highflyer produced very confiderable annual 

 incomes. 



A certain 



