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cations standing therefore, not only incon- 

 troverted, but in possession of general ac- 

 quiescence, to those pages the juvenile or in- 

 experienced inquirer is referred for any ad- 

 ditional information he may wish to obtain ; 

 this reference being justified only upon th^ 

 natural presumption, that there will be very 

 few purchasers of the present work, but what 

 are holders of the first Volume of the Stable 

 Directory likewise. 



Having there so extensively shown what 

 are the requisites desirable to obtain, we now 

 proceed to explain what the defects are most 

 necessary to be discovered in either sire or 

 dam, that the possible retention of lieredi^ 

 tary taints, defects^ or deformities, may be the 

 better avoided ; for although it remains, and 

 in all probability ever will, a matter of am- 

 biguity why an unblemished horse and mare 

 may produce a colt or filly full of disease or 

 deformity, it by no means follows that a dis- 

 eased or deformed sire or dam are equally 

 likely to produce a progeny of perfection. 

 This being unequivocally admitted (as by 

 every impartial investigator of nature it cer- 

 tainly must be), it will undoubtedly prove 



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