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will do wonders, if common sense will but assist 

 them. If you have not the opportunity of pur 

 chasing horses that the late Mr. Corbet had, I 

 should advise you to procure tliem from the 

 dealers in London, where you will have a better 

 chance tlian in the country : the great breeders 

 generally sell their young horses in one lot to 

 the London dealers, they are brought to town 

 untried, and they know no more of them than 

 the purchaser : if the latter buys an ill shaped 

 horse, he has nobody to blame but himself. That 

 flourishing and brilHant capital, London, is the 

 place to get the best of every thing ; for where 

 the highest price is given, superior things of 

 every description will be taken. 



If you wish to give a large price for Avhat is 

 called a zvell known made hunter, from one cause 

 or other, there are always, every spring, some 

 such valuable horses to be purchased at Tatter- 

 sails, which has been the rendezvous of sportsmen 

 from time immemorial, arising from the civility 

 of the late IMr. and the present ]\Iessrs. Tattersall 

 to all ranks. I sincerely hope they will ever 

 continue to meet with the encouragement their 

 meritorious conduct so eminently deserAcs. It is 

 the fountain of all sporting information ; sporting 

 men could not exist in town in the spring, if 

 there was no " Tattersalls." Independent of its 



