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they cannot be sold, either by private contract or 

 public sale, in the neighbourhood wherein they 

 are bred, are, if the distance is not too far, sent 

 to London to Messrs. Tattersal's; here they are 

 mostly sold for what they will fetch. 



Previously to the concluding of this chapter, it 

 may be necessary to observe, that the same ar- 

 rangements, allowing for the difference of the 

 year, stand good in the teaching, training, try- 

 ing, running, and disposing of colts that may not 

 be taken up from their paddocks until two years 

 old. 



