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that has produced one or two runners, is a corapa- 

 rative fortune ; her after-produce will sell at (figura- 

 tively speaking) any price he may in any reason 

 choose to ask for them. But to do this, I should 

 decidedly recommend him never to start a horse, 

 unless he may choose to amuse himself by doing so 

 for a hunter's plate or stakes ; for so sure as he starts 

 one of his thorough-bred ones, it will naturally be 

 nferred that he has tried them all, and only sells 

 those offering no promise of becoming first-rate as 

 race-horses. Nor can he expect, or, indeed, would he 

 have any right to expect, that those who they would 

 hold as his rejected ones, would bring high prices ; 

 whereas, if it were publicly known that he hond fide 

 never tried any colt he bred as a race-horse, the 

 strain alone will sell them, and purchasers will be 

 quite content to run the risk of what they may turn 

 out. The price that a promising yearling of known 

 running family will fetch, is often quite astounding 

 to non-racing persons; it is not guineas, tens, or 

 scores of guineas that are to be regarded, but hun- 

 dreds ; in fact, where there is a fair chance of get- 



