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and, if I may so speak, ruin the temper of the men placed 

 over them. 



When a working race is crossed with the English, it is in- 

 dispensable that the stallion should be well bred arid be but 

 a quarter blood, a quarter at the utmost. And the man- 

 ner of balancing the blood is neither an indifferent thing 

 nor a thing to be neglected. We should be very careful 

 not to accept as such the product of a full-blooded or even 

 half-blooded stallion and a common mare, but should rather r 

 take the product, ameliorated through generations, of 

 strong races that have been gradually perfected, such as, 

 for instance, certain Norfolk horses, certain roadsters and 

 trotters, of which old Jaggard was a type, and, of which 

 Performer, although not so marked, vaguely recalled the 

 memory. 



Since I have mentioned the name of Norfolk, let me 

 say, that after the Arab race, of all the foreign ones, 

 the Norfolk trotter is the one which seems to me to offer 

 the greatest advantages in an alliance with the Perche- 

 ron. With both, good qualities and defects are diverse, 

 so that they can complete and correct each other by means 

 of a wisely combined and carefully studied connection. 



The Norfolk horse has, it is true, an u'gly head, and his 

 eye is small and destitute of expression ; but his neck, 

 with good lines, starts well from his breast ; his shoulder 

 is fine and well-sloped ; his chest magnificent, and his girth 

 enormous; his loins broad, well-sustained and well-attach- 

 ed ; his haunches long, his croup horizontal*, his buttocks 

 well filled out and low ; and his limbs strong, but not quite 

 free enough from fat ; nor is his action always sufficiently 

 stylish, yet he has a quick and free gait. 



Give to this horse a mare having a fine and expressive 

 head, lighted up with a large, intelligent, well-opened 

 eye; let her possess lean, elegant, and perfect limbs, 

 and, a hundred to one, you will get a valuable colt. But, 

 with the Norfolk, as with all others, there are degrees, and 



