20 DETERIORATED CONDITION OF 



tional weakness in the parents, as the foals of 

 all other breeds of horses throughout the world 

 run about as soon as they are dropped. 



Notwithstanding the grant of public bounties 

 to our turf for the encouragement of a fine 

 breed of saddle-horses, we cannot in the ab- 

 sence on the part of Government of any attempt 

 to influence the proceedings on the turf, be 

 surprised to find that the Jockey Club met the 

 growing weakness of their horses only by giving 

 them less to do, in other words, by giving them 

 slighter tasks to perform when they found the 

 old ones had become too severe. 



The Jockey Club, as a body, being content 

 to see their horses lose every quality but speed, 

 no individual of that society can be expected 

 to make an effort to arrest this evil by taking 

 a course in his individual capacity calculated 

 to diminish the speed of his horses, so long as 

 speed alone is the only quality required under 

 the existing system of running. 



To the Jockey Club, or to the gentlemen 

 who breed our race-horses, it matters not what 

 is the character of their horses as a whole, 

 each individual desiring only to have the best 

 of that whole. The question now is, whether 



