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progress; so much so indeed as, from the 

 excellent choice they make in their stud- 

 horses, to incline some persons to the opinion 

 that in the course of half another century 

 we shall have to go to the United States to 

 replenish our own blood, which must de- 

 generate if that of the most sound and 

 enduring qualities is transported to that 

 country. For example, in the American 

 Turf Register for March last is a list of 

 twenty-nine thorough-bred English horses 

 propagating their stock throughout the 

 various states, amongst which are Appari- 

 tion, Autocrat, Barefoot, Claret, Chateau 

 Margaux, Consol, Emancipation, Hedgeford, 

 Luzborough, Leviathan, Lapdog, Margrave, 

 Merman, Rowton, Sarpedon, St. Giles, 

 Shakspeare, Tranby, and Young Truffle. 

 To these are to be added Glencoe, and, 

 alas ! Priam, at the extraordinary cost of 

 three thousand five hundred guineas ! 



The great and leading qualification of a 

 horse bred for the turf is the immaculate 

 purity of his blood. It is, then, little less 

 than a misnomer to call a half-bred horse 

 a race-horse ; it is like the royal stamp im- 

 pressed upon base metal. Besides, what 



