58 PURCHASING FROM THE STABLES. 



What gives a horse a deej) chest ? — Blood. 



What gives a horse a fine forearm ? — Ditto. 



What 2:ives a horse a flat shank-bone? — Ditto. 



What gives a horse a wiry limb, and large back 

 sinews ? — Ditto. 



What is the real meaning of blood? — Blood. 



Blood is shown in Premier and Perfection, 

 pp. 72 and 73 ; Half-bred, in Water Proof, p. 

 73; and No Blood, in the Frontispiece. If 

 you are so dull of comprehension that you can- 

 not understand the meaning of it from all these 

 drawings, assisted by all the foregoing explana- 

 tion, confine yourself to a tattoo or screw ; you 

 were never born to display Perfection. 



To decide upon the exact quantity of breeding 

 every individual horse may possess, is another 

 affair. Tlie numerous shades of difference from 

 the lowest caste up through the half and three- 

 quarter bred to the highest caste, complicated as 

 they are rendered by a greater or less degree of 

 good and indifferent build attached to each, 

 makes that impossible ; it can only be known 

 to a certainty by the breeder, whe/e the pedi- 

 grees have been accurately noted down from 

 generation to generation ; and in India, so long 

 as all pedigrees are taken upon trust, these in- 

 termediate shades of distinction must always 

 remain a matter of opinion ; but I do nut hesi- 



