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He is flill living ; and, what is remark- 

 able, lad feafon, at the age of thirty, cover- 

 ed feveral mares. v His leap five guineas 

 each, for blood mares ; two guineas for 

 " Chapmen's" mares *. 



But notwithflanding the credit which the 

 Vale has juflly acquired of late by its hunt- 

 ers, the breed is at prefent changing to fa- 

 fhionable COACH-HORSES; namely, tall, flrong, 

 overfized hunters. The breed, therefore, 

 may be faid to have increafed in fize, rather 

 than to have undergone a change. In 1783, 

 the flail ion -Ihows exhibited beautiful groups 

 of animals, nimble as the greyhound, and fpi- 

 rited as the lion. This year (1787) the 

 Ihows were comparatively flat and fpirit* 

 lefs : a mere parade of troopers. 



There may be feveral reafons for the altea 

 ration which is taking place in the breed of 

 horfes in the Vale. The Jalapian breed has 

 degenerated ; very few of the Tons of this 

 celebrated horfe have been good flock-get- 

 ters. Another reafon, and perhaps a better, 

 M 2 is 



* He died in December 1787, fince this article was 



written. 



