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these three results to occur oftener than any of the 

 others. 



We will suppose that the sire of a foal has good 

 shoulders, and the dam has bad ones. In the first of 

 the three instances, the foal will take after the sire, 

 and have good shoulders also ; in the second case, 

 he will take after the dam, and have bad shoulders ; 

 and in the third, his shoulders will be better than 

 those of his dam, and not so good as those of his 

 sire. Now if j'ou breed three foals from these parents, 

 you have no right to expect anything but that you 

 should have one of each sort, and you would three- 

 fore only get one out of the three with shoulders as 

 good as his sire's, that is, as good as you want them 

 to be. 



It is for want of working out this simple arith- 

 metical calculation that many breeders of horses 

 are disappointed and disgusted with the results 

 obtained. 



I wonder how many men after breeding a few 

 horses from one good shaped parent, and one very 

 moderate one, have reasoned thus to themselves, ' I 

 had hoped that the greater part of the stock would 

 be good; but I had a right to expect that half oi 

 them would be satisfactory ; instead of that, I get 

 two bad ones to one good one. What an unluckly 

 beggar I am ! ' 



The usual way for producing a hunter, is for the 



