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caste horses are seen badly formed, and many 

 half or three parts bred, well formed. High 

 caste united to a running form, will never fail ; 

 and some horses, when led out, show such superior 

 blood, energy, and build, that if properly trained, 

 and nothing constitutionally wrong, they would 

 be sure to gallop : others showing externally only 

 tolerable good caste, but good make ; or good 

 caste but indifferent make, may be called the 

 doubtful ones : while there is a third, a numerous 



generally beat half breeding in a good formed horse, must be 

 gi-anted ; but the slightest superiority of build in any part of 

 the frame between two of equal blood, is known to every stable- 

 boy to be of the greatest importance : — 



Osmer, page 221. On Form and Performance. " For if a 

 different formation of the parts, &c. and the degrees thereof, be 

 not the cause of difference in the performances, why then one 

 of these horses of the right and true blood would act alike on 

 all ground whatever, and be just as good though made like a 

 hog and without joints." Again, page 229. " In the nature 

 and elegance of their constituent parts, and the due formation 

 thereof, consist the difference between horses of the same and 

 different countries ; or betwixt blood, and no blood." Again, 

 page 230. " Conqueror and Othello were two full brothers, 

 but one was a king and the other a beggar, with respect both 

 to form and action. If then the difference in the performance 

 of these brothers did not depend on their different formation of 

 parts, &c. pray tell me on what it did depend, for the cause 

 of it couldn't be in the blood, unless you will say this innate 

 quality may appertain to one brother and not to another ; and 

 then, I apprehend, the bystanders will say you have proved 

 nothing." 



