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price of a promising yearling, say from two to five 

 hundred guineas ;* or, should he prefer a two- 

 year-old, of fashionable blood, and the winner or 

 second in any of the great Spring two-year-old 

 stakes, he will find himself out of pocket to the ex- 

 tent of from five to fifteen hundred guineas. In 

 fact, nothing but the immense amount of stakes, 

 as we have previously shown, for colts and fillies, 

 can justify such a speculation. 



The requisites necessary to render breeding 

 profitable as a " business," are, judgment in se- 

 lecting, and plenty of money at command to 

 secure mares and stallions of the best blood ; 

 paddocks and necessary buildings on a suitable 

 soil ; and intelligent and trustworthy grooms to 

 look after the establishment. With all these 

 essentials in proper order, breeding, distinct from 

 racing, cannot fail to pay, on the average, whether 

 the foals are sold off at weaning time, or as yearlings. 



The present race of stud-grooms and trainers, 

 form a very different class of men from their pre- 

 decessors, whom they far excel in point of re- 

 spectability and intelligence, the result of education 

 and the general diffusion of useful knowledge. 

 Books written by those who have taken practical 

 experience and nature for their guides, have been 



• The yearly sales of the late royal stud, of the studs of Mr. Nowell 

 of Underley Hall, Westmoreland, the Earl of Durham, and others of 

 the principal breeders of racing-stock, will be found fully to bear out 

 the above quotations. 



