64 PURCHASING FROM THE STABLES. 



In the Racer, first to the caste and the hind parts. 



In the Charger, as you value your neck and 

 comfort, attend to every part. Money here is 

 well laid out : he should be faultless : his name 

 Perfection, and his motto, Fier, mais sensible. 



The annexed drawings will serve as a good 

 index to the foregoing description. The second 

 is a beautiful model of the proper form of a Light 

 Dragoon Charger, and an excellent cut as a general 

 runner of all races. The Racer and Hunter may 

 look very different to the same class of horse in 

 England ; but though the points should be the 

 same, the Arab, in consequence of his stature, 

 which in some of the best runners has not ex- 

 ceeded fourteen hands one and a half inch, and 

 from his having inherited nothing but his native 

 blood, assumes a very different appearance. 



A cavalry horse must partake of something 

 of this second form ; for a charger with a long 

 back and straight shoulder, that cannot be brought 

 on his iTaunches, is as ridiculous as a racer with a 

 bull-neck and a camel's hind quarter, that cannot 

 be got into a gallop ; both being about as use- 

 ful to answer their trades as a Newmarket carrier- 

 pigeon without wings ; and yet, such are conti- 

 nually purchased by Mr. Green and his brother ; 

 and the former not unfrequently sent to the light 

 cavalry. Another description chosen for troopers, 



