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cutting or knocking, whether his feet be found, 

 and his joints free from ftiffnefs, or injury from 

 hard labour. 



After thefe preliminaries, you may permit 

 the jockey in waiting to mount, who ought to 

 exhibit a fair fpecimen of every pace, walk, 

 trot, canter, and gallop, you having placed 

 yourfelf in the interim, about midway of his 

 intended courfe, forward and back again ; in 

 which advantageous fituation, you may com- 

 mand a view of the horfe, his figure and aftion, 

 in all direftions. In this part of the fhew, 

 the particulars to be noted chiefly, are how the 

 horfe carries his head, the dep;ree of freedom he 

 poffefles in his flioulders, w^iether he goes well 

 above his ground, and fafe, whether his haunches 

 follow well, and without over-reachino-, and 

 whether he fubmits to the touch of the fpur 

 without fucking in his wind, and fwelling, which 

 is a fure indication of a rebellious difpofition, 

 and that he obeys with relu6lance. As the con- 

 ' eluding fcene, the nag is brought back to that 

 elevated fpot juft mentioned, when you take 

 another curfory view of him, and he returns ta 

 his flable. 



But I would advife no perfon, however ac- 

 cuflomed to horfes, to purchafe one for his 

 own ufe, without previoufly riding him a trial 

 himfelf ; a privilege which no dealer of credit 

 refufes to the extent of two or three miles 



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