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great attention is paid to breeding ; and that 

 {he myfteries of it will be difcloled ; while, 

 perhaps, others have conceived that their fu- 

 periority is more owing to the art of breed- 

 ing than to the geniality of climature. I 

 ihould be fqrry if truth oblige me to difco- 

 ver the misjudgment of my readers ; and feel 

 myfelf aukwardly circumftanced in being 

 under the necefiity of difclofmg the mifcon- 

 duct of my countrymen. 



In different parts of the kingdom the 

 breeding of race-korfes is reduced almoft to 

 fcience.' In the Midland counties, the breed- 

 ing of cart-horfes is attended to with the 

 fame affiduity as that which has of late years 

 been beftowed on cattle and fheep ; while the 

 breeding of faddle-borfes, hunters, and coach- 

 bcrfes^ is almoft entirely neglected ; is left 

 almoft wholly to chance : even in Yorkfhire ! 

 I mean as to FEMALES. A breeder, here, 

 would npt give five guineas for the beft 

 brood mare in the kingdom; unlefs Ihe 

 could draw, or carry him occasionally to 

 market; nor a guinea extraordinary for one 

 which would do both. He would fooner 

 from a rip which he happens to have 



