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thing of the eontlition of horses, farther than what I 

 have here stated ; at least, those of them who are bred 

 up as I have here described ; they are not capable of 

 bringing a hunter into a fit state to go a hunting, and 

 as to their getting a race-horse into a fit condition to 

 run, is quite out of the question. However, to do 

 justice to grooms in general, and to prevent any incon- 

 venience which might arise from an ignorance of the 

 proper department in which each groom should be 

 respectively placed, I shall divide these men into three 

 different classes. 



Instead of the saddle-horse or pad groom, the stud 

 groom is the first I ought to have described ; but as it 

 is my intention, at some future period, to write on the 

 subject of breeding horses, as well as on the manage- 

 ment and condition of hunters generally, I shall, for 

 the present, decline entering into a description of the 

 qualifications necessary for the grooms above mentioned 

 to possess. 



