As to our Horses, it is confest by the best Judges, that by bringing over the noblest Stallions, and the highest bred Mares, we may boast of having raised the Character of both our Racers and Hunters to a surprizing Degree. We send over great Numbers every Year abroad and I am assured, that in the _French_ King's Stables, they make as great a Figure, and are as much esteemed, as those of any Country in _Europe_, if we except _Great Britain_. Our Nobility and Gentry, are so passionately fond of keeping fine Studs, and the highest priced Cattle For Blood and Performance, that if they go on, as they have hitherto done, to lay out such large Sums in indulging this Humour, we may in Time expect to pay Part of the dreadful Importation of _French_ Claret, by our _Irish_ Horses. SWIFT. I wonder you don't brag of our Importing Jack-Asses, and breeding Mules here, among your other mighty Nothings you boast of so magnificently. For my part, _Tom_, I see no great Advantage to the Service of _Ireland_, that a few private Gentlemen have improv'd the Breed of the horned Cattle. You may as well argue, that some of our _Irish_ Senators marrying a few celebrated Toasts for their Beauty, wou'd improve the natural homeliness of the Commonality. Indeed the Improvement made in the Breed of our _Irish_ Horses, I believe will grow very general, and have more enlarged Consequences, among our People, as Racing favours some of their darling Passions, their Indolence and Idleness, Gaming and Drinking, and the helping our Fox-Hunters off, with their Time and their Fortunes, which I ever thought, two of the greatest Burdens to our _Irish_ Gentlemen in the World. If they wou'd turn themselves, to breed Cattle to mount our Troops, or draw our Carriages, they might indeed save us 5000_l._ a Year, and do something truly beneficial to our Country; but, _Tom_, they have Souls above the little Views of being useful, and managing their Expences, and keeping our Cash in the Kingdom, are low Arts and Tricks, fitter for the mean Notions of a Merchant or a Mechanick, than Men of Fortune and Family, that are as proud and as thoughtless as so many noble _Spaniards_.