rather inclined to leannefs.It is worthy of remark, that, instead of croffing the breed, the Arabs take every precaution to keep it pure and unmixed: They preferve with the greatest care, and for an amazing length of time, the genealogies of their Horfes-Thofe of the first kind are called Nobles, being "of a pure and ancient race, purer than milk." They have likewife two other kinds, which, having been degraded by common alliances, fell at inferior prices.

From Arabia, the race of Horses has probably extended into Barbary and other parts of Africa; those being confidered as next to the Arabian Horfes in fwiftnefs and beauty, though they are somewhat smaller.

The Spanish Genette is held in great estimation: Like the former, it is fmall, but beautiful, and extremely fwift.

The Horses of India and many parts of China are extremely small and vicious. One of these was some years ago brought into this country as a prefent to the queen, which was very little larger than fome mastiffs, meafuring only nine hands in height.

In Great-Britain, the breed of Horfes feems to be as mixed as that of its inhabitants.-By great attention to the improvement of this noble animal, by a judicious mixture of several kinds, and by fuperior skill in ment, the English

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is allowed to excel thofe of the reft of Europe, or perhaps the whole world. For fupporting a continuance of violent exertion, (or what is called, in the language of the turf, bottom) they are fuperior to the Arabian, the A 3

The following account of the prizes won by fome of our capital Race-Horfes, will fhew the importance of that breed in England, where fuch vaft fums frequently depend on the issue of their contefts:

BAY MALTON, (by Sampfon) the property of the late Marquis of Rockingham, in feven prizes won the amazing fum of 5,9001. At York, he ran four miles in feven minutes and forty-three and an half feconds, which was seven and an half feconds lefs time than it was ever done before over the fame course.

CHILDERS, (well known by the name of Flying Childers) the property of the Duke of Devonshire, was allowed by fportfmen to be the fleeteft Horfe that ever was bred in the world: He started

Barb, or the Perfian; and for swiftness, they will yield the palm to none. An ordinary Racer is known to go at the rate of a mile in less than two minutes; but there have been inftances of much greater rapidity: The famous Horfe Childers has been known to move eightytwo feet and an half in a second, or nearly a mile in a minute; he has run round the courfe at Newmarket, which is little lefs than four miles, in fix minutes and forty feconds.

repeatedly at Newmarket against the best Horses of his time, and was never beaten: He won, in different prizes, to the amount of nearly 2,000l.; and was afterwards referved as a stallion-The fire of Childers was an Arabian, fent by a gentleman as a prefent to his brother in England.

DORIMANT, a famous Horfe belonging to Lord Offory, won prizes to the amazing amount of 13,3631.

ECLIPSE was allowed to be the fleeteft Horse that ever ran in England fince the time of Childers.-After winning king's plates and other prizes to a great amount, he covered, by fubfcription, forty mares, at thirty guineas each; befides those of his owner.

HIGHFLYER was accounted the beft Horfe of his time in England. The fums he won and received amounted to near 9,000l. though he never ftarted after five years old. He was never beaten, nor never paid a forfeit.

MATCHEM, a Horfe belonging to the late W. Fenwick, Efq; befides being a capital Racer, was particularly remarkable as a ftallion; and may be truly faid to have earned more money than any other Horfe in the world. He was engaged, during nine years of his life, to cover twenty-five mares, at fifty guineas a mare; and was uncommonly fuccessful in the celebrity of his progeny, having been fire to many of our most famous running Horfes. He was remarkable for being the quieteft ftallion that ever was known; to which, perhaps, may be attributed his great age, being in his thirty-third year when he died.

SHARK Won, befides a cup value 120gs, and eleven hogfheads of claret, the amazing fum of 15,507gs, in plates, matches, and forfeits.

The most extraordinary inftance of fleetness, in a trotting pace, we remember to have feen recorded, was performed, on the 4th of July, 1788, for a wager of thirty guineas, by a Horse, the property of a gentleman of Billiter-square, London. He trotted thirty miles in an hour and twenty minutes, though he was allowed, by the terms of the bet, an hour and an half.

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is a happy combination of the Race-Horfe with others of superior strength, but inferior in swiftness; and may be confidered as the most useful breed of Horfes in Europe. Their fpirit and activity in the field is well known, and can only be equalled by the perfeverance with which they endure the much more fevere labour of pofting on the road, which is now carried on by this active and hardy race, with a celerity unknown at any former period.

Geldings of this kind are fent over to the continent in great numbers: Their fuperior worth is universally acknowledged abroad; and they are fold at very high prices to foreigners of the first distinction.

The mixture of this with others of inferior rank forms an endless variety, the different gradations becoming too minute to be difcriminated.

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No other country has produced a breed of Horfes equal in fize and ftrength to the larger kind of our draught Horfes. The cavalry of England is in general formed of this clafs of Horfes; but their inutility being experienced in fome fituations, others of a lighter and more active kind have been substituted in a few regiments. The fens of Lincolnshire generally produce a larger breed than any other part of the kingdom. In London, there have been inftances where a single Horse of that kind has drawn, for a fmall space, the enormous weight of three tons, half of which is known to be their ordinary draught.

Confiderable improvements have of late years been made in this kind of Horfes, by Mr Bakewell of Difhley, and others; who, by great attention and ingenuity, have acquired fuch celebrity, that they frequently fell stallions of their respective breeds for two hundred gui