20 THE HORSE BOOK. 



the result is a marvel of achievement. The con- 

 clusion of the whole matter is that heredity of 

 itself will do little for us if we do not direct 

 and environ aright the results accruing from its 

 limited force. The elements of success tem- 

 poral or moral must proceed from within the 

 man essaying to achieve it. The breeder who 

 succeeds takes the forces and the elements he 

 finds at his hand and directs them and sur- 

 rounds them to the attainment of a fixed ideal 

 which can be correctly formed only by careful 

 thought lighted by the lamp of experience and 

 reached only by a conquering course over obsta- 

 cles great and small. 



