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steadily decline to grow fat. The worst of breeding horses is that, 

 if a colt is unhandsome or has a blemish which would prevent its 

 fetching full value on the market, his owner finds himself doomed 

 to its company for the rest of its natural life. The good animals 

 are sold to make a better show in the balance-sheet, the bad ones 

 remain at home. 



