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Nervous, fidgety brutes that cannot take part in a parade 



without being upset. 

 Shallow in girth and back rib, light in barrel, and from 70 



to 80 per cent, of them leggy and deficient in bone 



and limb. 

 Diseases of the legs more common among thoroughbred 



stock — e.g., curb, bone-spavin, bog-spavin, and ring- 

 bone. 

 Not a good horse was to be discovered among them ; 



there was, however, uniformity of bad points. 

 A pampered stock ; not in it for saddle purposes, not 



having one single recommendation ; a most wretched 



lot. 

 Bad feet, defective hocks, and other unsoundnesses. 

 Crooked-legged, deformed brutes, not worth sixpence ; 



useless animals. 

 Our English troop-horses have altogether collapsed. 

 A lack of stamina ; mediocrity. 

 The spurious gaining ground every day. 

 A very bad lot ; an unsatisfactory affair ; much of a 



muchness ; cut up wretchedly ; of poor class. 

 Most unsound, weedy wretches ; roaring increased. 

 Big hungry chargers ; worthless sires ; Salvador utterly 



disgraced himself. 

 Broken-down crocks and jades nervous and irritable in 



temper. 

 Trained only to scramble off from the starting gate on his 



toes. 

 Half a dozen horses in one afternoon steeplechasing, with 



the tube after tracheotomy in their throats. 

 Unsound, weedy half-milers or four-furlong shadows. 



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