64 PRECEPT AXD PRACTICE. 



TATTEESALL'S AND OTHER PLACES. 



I HATE ventured a hint to the best of my judgment 

 as to the best way of each man setting about getting 

 information to be depended on as regards purchasing 

 from studs ; but all are not studs that are sent to 

 Tattersall's. There are single horses, two, three, or 

 more, as the case may be, belonging to noblemen or 

 gentlemen ; the single horses frequently belong to 

 gentlemen also, but as frequently to Mr. The-Lord- 

 knows-who. In some cases Mr. Tattersall himself 

 does not know the right owner : the animal is booked 

 in the name of Brown, or anything else ; and, to make 

 the matter worse, the only directions sometimes left 

 are, " The owner will attend the sale.'* 



A horse left in this way is commonly the property 



