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is the low Persian, or Gulph horse, often without 

 any breeding at all, sometimes having a roach 

 back, and consequently deformed quarter, droop- 

 ing to the elegant angle of fifty degrees ; such a 

 brute can neither be useful nor ornamental for 

 any purpose. A half-bred Arab, or well-formed 

 Gulph horse, of fourteen hands one inch high, 

 may do very well as a charger for a light weight 

 of eight stone; but a good Kattywar, with his 

 handsome crest and high action, is worth a hun- 

 dred Gulph fourteen hands one inch tattoos. 

 Size, strength, and activity, with fresh strong 

 legs, tough feet, and open heels, are the grand 

 desiderata for the cavalry. 



Breeding the cavalry horse is foreign to my 

 present purpose, but no man should be entrusted 

 to pair horses and mares, until he understands 

 something of the proper build of both, and is also 

 fully aware of the undoubted truism, that " Like 

 will produce like." The keeping a bad horse 

 costs the Honourable Company's government 

 quite as much as a good one, indeed, more ; for 

 the curious-shaped animals that are sometimes 

 sent as colts for troopers take five times as long 

 to break in as proper formed ones would ; and 

 even then, they are always laming themselves, or 

 annoying their riders. There is no more diffi- 

 culty in breeding good shaped horses than bad 



