Green’s Dictionary of Slang

coaping-cull n.

[SE cope, to barter, to make a bargain, to buy]

a jockey.

[UK]J. Poulter Discoveries (1774) 42: I am a coaping Cull; I am a Horse Jockey.
[UK]Whole Art of Thieving 31: They [...] go thirty or forty miles that night, towards the next gaff to fence them [i.e. horses], that is, to the next fair to sell them, and when they come there they sell them to a coaping cull, that is, a horse jockey they know.