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 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. THE RACE-HORSE. In Great-Britain the breed of Horſes 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 feveral kinds, and by fuperior fkill in manage- ment, the Englifh Race-Horſe* is allowed to excel thoſe pital Race- Horſes, will ſhew the importance of that breed in Eng- land, where fuch vaft fums frequently depend on the iſſue of their conteſts : — Bay Malton, (by Sampfon) the property of the late Marquis of Rockingham, in (even prizes won the amazing fum of 5,900!. At York, he ran four miles in ſeven minutes and forty- three and an half ſeconds, which was feven and an half feconds lefs time than it was ever done before over the fame coiufe. Childers, (well known by the name of T lying Childers) the propertv of the Duke of Dcvonfliire, was allowed by fportfmen to be the fleetefl: Horfe that ever was bred in the world : He llarted repeatedly at Newmarket againft the beft Horfes of his time, and was never beaten : He won, in different prizes, to the amount of nearly acool.; and was afterwards rcfervcd as a ftalliuu. — The lire of Childers was an Arabian, fent by a gentleman as a prefent to his brother in England. DoRiMANT, a famous Horfe belonging to Lord Oflbry, won prizes to the great amount of 13,563!.
 * The following account of the prizes won by fome of our ca-