124 England's horses, 



If such results, the recent Continental War will have in 

 one respect done England good service, by having conduced 

 to a state of things by the closing of Continental Ports that 

 first led to the general knowledge of our home scarcity by 

 stoj)j)ing the annual, nay, weekly imports from abroad, for 

 a time. Had those supplies continued unimpeded we might 

 have gone on in general ignorance of our state till a time 

 when the course that has been running its exhaustive way 

 would have left us in a much worse state for regenerative 

 efforts than we are now. 



If, then, it can be incontestably deduced from evidence, 

 too sadly incontrovertible, that a majority of our j^wr sang 

 horses are painfully unstable, effete, and decrepit, happily, 

 we can produce very superior examples of high class 

 animals of the same caste — the best of this order — but 

 removed by their super-excellence from the immediate 

 cliannels of general utility ; nevertheless, numbers of sound 

 and suitable stallions that have failed in those qualifications 

 of speed, that is now the ne plus ultra of the racing arena, 

 may be annually culled from the training stables at the 

 " back end " of the turf season, applicable in every particu- 

 lar for the purposes of regenerating and improving our 

 general and war horses, but at no " screw prices." 



We have only to be competent and careful in selection, 

 and judicious in placing such stallions where a wide and 

 fertile field for their services will be open. And thus, 

 having so far conformed to the leading princijjle of " the 

 universal mother," in her own domains, by resorting for 

 the benefit of posterity to the best males, let us confidently 

 rely for results upon the unerring accuracy and sufiiciency 

 of that omnipotent dispensation that cannot err, and to 

 which we thus become disciples. 



Much mischief as has befallen this the most noble of his 

 brute servants, from man's folly and vain-glory in the pros- 



