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right of persevering in his own decision ; 

 but presuming on the task I have undertaken, 

 I conscientiously recommend a proper exa- 

 mination to discover the state of the windy 

 spavins, curbs, tendency to cracks or grease, 

 bad conformation of the/ee/, as corns, thrush, 

 or long and narrow heeled hoofs, either of 

 all which would furnish sufficient foundation 

 to prejudice me against him as a sire, how- 

 ever well I might be pleased with his other 

 most promising perfections. 



These casual blemishes or hereditary de- 

 fects being carefully avoided, we come to an 

 inquiry of much greater consequence, the in- 

 attention to which has been productive of 

 more disappointment and vexation to the be- 

 fore-described class of unthinking breeders, 

 than perhaps any other part of their incon- 

 sistency. Opposite opinions will always be 

 the support, of two distinct classes, the right md 

 thexvrong\ for while one party asserts (from 

 experience and observation) the great ha- 

 zard, and certain danger of breeding from a 

 blind stallion, the other from innate obsti- 

 nacy or affected superiority of penetration, 

 is determined to encounter such indiscretion 



