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horfc, as being applicable to every purpofe, 

 from innate qualities, which can be predicated 

 of no other fpecies of the animal. Sampfon, 

 Babram, and Eclipfe, from felected large and 

 fhort-legged bred mares, would have produced 

 very ufeful flock for thq fhafts of a dray -, but I 

 do not warrant that fuch would be fuperior to 

 our real cart-flock. Two defcriptions of per- 

 fons appear to me to jr.dge erroneoufly, thofe 

 who fuppofe all racers to be a fpider-legged 

 and ufelefs breed, and thofe who contend, that 

 our whole attention ouq;ht to be direfted to 

 breeding them of a large lize. - The chief 

 objeft in breeding a race-horfe ought to be 

 truth and fymmetry in the cardinal points ; it 

 is always eafy enough to produce bulk, particu- 

 larly in the crois, for other purpofes. 



I have in the Firft Volume, 'defined a tho- 

 rough-bred horfe or racer, to be originally the 

 produce of certain parts of Afia or Africa, or 

 of the South of Europe. In the infancy of 

 racing in this country, any fouthern horfe, or 

 the get of fuch from Englifh mares, if tolera- 

 bly fhaped, was trained for the courfe. Shape 

 and a6tivity were the chief points attended to, ' 

 and pedigree was not required with that pun61i- 

 lious degree of cxaftnefs which has of late 

 years obtained. At what period pedigree be- 

 came fo much an objeft of confequence, I have 

 been unable to difcover, and I believe there 



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