The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
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RABBITS propagate so rapidly, and increase so largely, in some parks and
farms of a woodland country, that they become, by their numbers,
exceedingly injurious, and an occasional reduction is found unavoidably
necessary, as a matter of self defence; in which case RABBIT SHOOTING is
found a most pleasant diversion. This is enjoyed with the assistance of
a brace of spaniels, which being turned into the bushes and hedge-rows,
are hardly ever without a rabbit on foot: but it must be a very _quick_
and _good_ shot to prove successful, as their short turns, and sudden
twists, render them a very difficult mark to hit. WARRENERS, in some
parts of the kingdom, are called warren farmers, whose premises are of
very great extent, and the rent from three to four and five hundred
pounds a year: the rabbits in these are so completely private property,
that various Acts are still in force for their preservation, and the
summary punishment of offenders (before a justice of peace) for any
transgression against the statutes in such case made and provided.
RACE HORSE—Is the kind of horse bred solely for the TURF, and whose
blood must be properly authenticated to have descended in a STATE of
PURITY from one generation to another, without the least contamination
by any accidental or intentional cross whatever. Horses of this
description are not entirely selected, as others in general are, by the
_make_, _shape_, _strength_, and _bone_, but in a great degree by the
estimation of the blood from which they have descended; and from which
circumstance alone is derived their claim to the appellation of BLOOD
HORSES, which they properly continue to retain, and are alone entitled
to. We are furnished with the most indubitable assurances, that the
ARABS are (if possible) more tenacious, precise, and correct, in the
pedigree, or genealogical descent, of their superior and unmixed breed,
than the sporting breeders of this country; and that the PEDIGREES of
each peculiar and distinguished BLOOD has been for CENTURIES transmitted
from generation to generation, with the same authenticated accuracy, as
is now the regular practice with every racing stud in the kingdom. The
emulative impulse of the English sportsman to attain perfection, most
probably suggested the idea of introducing the celebrated BLOOD of
ARABIA, that judicious experimental _crosses_ might be made with the
best of our own.
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