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training stables on the Downs, where 

 the animal was prepared to become a 

 candidate for those great prizes so 

 many of his lordship's horses carried 

 away. It is only by such management 

 and by such means, joined with a per- 

 fect knowledge of the properties of par- 

 ticular breeds, and first-rate judgment in 

 selecting that with which to cross and im- 

 prove his own, that any man can command 

 a flourishing racing stud ; and this falls to 

 the lot of but few. 



This magnificent establishment, so worthy 

 alike of its purpose and its noble owner, 

 was founded or commenced more than a 

 century since by "the proud Duke of 

 Somerset," as he is termed, in contradis- 

 tinction to the first of his family, the 

 virtuous, talented, and popular, but un- 

 fortunate Protector, who deserved the 

 title of Great and descended with the 

 mansion and estate to the late proprietor, 



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