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racehorses in England are all descended from one 

 thoroughbred horse, Glencoe. 



I will not enlarge further on this topic, but will 

 proceed to give a few statistics and facts about 

 breeding generally, which I have been enabled, 

 through the kindness of people more experienced 

 than myself, to obtain. 



They are taken chiefly from experience with 

 thoroughbred stock, as this is almost the only sort 

 which are bred in sufficient numbers and have suffi- 

 cient attention paid to them to get any reliable in- 

 formation about. But many of the facts mentioned 

 would probably hold good equally in other breeds, 

 or in mixing one breed with another. 



The shape of the foal takes more after the sire 

 than the dam. Some few mares breed more to 

 themselves than the horse, but as a rule most breed 

 to the horse in regard to make and shape, and there- 

 fore if you were to put a number of mares to the 

 same horse, and one mare to different horses in suc- 

 cession, the foals by the same horse would bear a 

 greater resemblance to their sire than the one 

 mare's foals would bear to her in appearance and 

 shape and outline. They also would bear a greater 

 resemblance to the sire, and therefore to each other, 

 in colour, with the exception of grey, about which 

 colour the following peculiarity calls for mention. 

 In other colours a foal will sometimes be produced 

 which resembles neither of its parents in colour, but 



