AN ESSAY, 



The word condition is used by horsemen in a 

 different sense from that in which it is understood 

 as applied to cattle by the mass of farmers. By 

 condition, the farmer often means a high state of 

 fatness ; the horseman, on the contrary, makes use 

 of the word to indicate the greatest health and 

 strength produced by reducing all the superfluous 

 fat, bringing the mere flesh into clean, hard and 

 powerful muscle, and invigorating the lungs and 

 other internal organs, so that they may promptly 

 discharge their respective functions, and suffer no 

 damage from uncommon stress the whole in order 

 to the animal's performing labors and sustaining 

 a continuance of action, to which he would not be 

 adequate without such special preparation. 



By the Condition of a Stallion is meant the 

 state of the system in which the male horse should 

 be kept, in order to derive from him the greatest 

 excellence in the progeny. 



Too many persons are content to breed their 

 mares to a horse whose figure suits them, without 

 regard to his condition The mention of one 

 prominent instance alone will be sufficient to 

 show that good condition is essential to the pro- 

 duction of a valuable progeny. A remarkable 



