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tins system any essential loss of vigour would 

 be instantly repaired by the most economical 

 means. In maintaining vigour in a race of 

 riorses without coarseness, we should have 

 laid the best foundation for giving to it those 

 artificial qualities which result from annual 

 trials, and continued selection. 



It is in our power to modify greatly the 

 acquired as well as the natural properties of 

 Oriental Horses ; but we cannot combine the 

 highest degree of transient speed with the 

 compact skeleton and muscular power dis- 

 played by the earlier Horses, and required 

 when great distances are to be traversed, or 

 much weight to be carried. 



The practical utility of our Author's plans 

 and speculations may create doubt in some 

 minds as to the propriety of their adoption to 

 the extent of his views : we trust, however, 

 that they will stimulate inquiry, and be pro- 

 ductive of all the benefit the most sanguine 

 may anticipate. It is a subject of vital import- 

 ance and of grave deliberation. We earnestly 

 recommend an attentive perusal of the work, 

 not only to our readers, but to all engaged in 

 the breeding of, and traffic in. Horses. 



We hear of much despondency expressed 

 that the breed of Horses will leave »s, and that 

 Its advantages some of our Continental neigh- 

 bours are of opinion will aot long remain with 

 us : they are fully aware of the source whence 

 we derive this superiority, and are in con- 

 sequence endeavoring to establish Races on 

 the English plan, which together with a more 

 careful selection of stallions and mares than 

 they observe in England, will very soon, they 

 say, enable them to excel us ; and they antici- 

 pate a day, not very distant, when the English 

 must send to the Continent, if not for speedy, 

 &t least for sound Horses. This hint about 



soundness may be w.rth attention but for tha 

 rest there can be little to apprehend. 



The following account for the demand o' 

 the racing blood of this country, would, how- 

 ever, make it appear that in foreign countries 

 the English racehorse is still held in great 

 estimation, whatever may be the opinion of 

 Englishmen themselves. 



England, where during the last century the 

 improvement of her breed of Horses has been 

 cultivated with unwearied zeal and a lavish 

 expenditure, is now reaping a golden harvest 

 in return for her enterprise and spirit. Pur- 

 chasers arrive from the four quarters of the 

 globe. America has taken up the specula- 

 tion with an ardour worthy the scion of " the 

 old country." Louis Phillipe, although no 

 Sportsman, and an enemy to the Turf, as a 

 national amusement, still felt the importance 

 of encouraging the breeding of Horses in 

 France upon a better principle than that of 

 crossing the Flanders mare with the Norman 

 stallion. With the view of turning the atten- 

 tion of the French farmer to a nevT source of 

 rural industry, the Royal Breeding Stud in 

 Normandy is now conducted upon a scale of 

 which we have no example in this country. 

 Their stud of stallions is enormous ; and when 

 such Horses are found in it as Lottery, Cad- 

 land, Pickpocket, Juggler, Dangerous, Tee- 

 totum, Mameluke, Young Emilius, Cleveland, 

 and an endless et cetera, it will be seen they 

 have gone the right way to work. These 

 Horses durina: the season are sent all over tha 

 country. 



Germany has purchased largely of our best 

 blood : Holstein, Belgium, Denmark, and Rus- 

 sia have bought from us : but no purchasers 

 come to the English market who evince the 

 talent and spirit of the Americans. In ooo 



