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an inferior class; some of which may be likely to 

 make good country-plate horses. We will turn 

 these out into separate paddocks, in each of which 

 there is of course a loose house and water trough. 

 These colts are to remain here to be well fed 

 with corn and hay until the month of September, 

 by which time they will be two years and a half 

 old, when it will be proper to take them up. 

 The few remaining colts of the twelve, which 

 were proved, on being tried, to be so inferior to 

 the others as to be totally useless for racing, are 

 generally ill formed as to their structure; some 

 of them are so big, leggy and unwieldy, as to be 

 incapable of supporting their own bodily frame in 

 coming a racing pace for anything like a racing 

 length. While some others may be equally in- 

 ferior from being small, under-sized weedy colts, 

 that have neither sufficient length, breadth, or 

 substance, in any of those essential points, which 

 would enable them to maintain their speed in a 

 long race. These inferior colts should be dis- 

 posed of as soon as possible to make room in the 

 establishment for other stock, as also to save the 

 expense of keep. Colts of the above description, 

 bred in the neighbourhood of Newmarket, are 

 there sold at the spring or autumnal meetings. 

 Others, bred in different parts of the country, if 



