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of such horses are all in the same boat, by all 

 possessing horses unfitted for running the whole 

 of that distance. Thus it is not worth any 

 man's while now breeding horses for our turf 

 to change the nature of his stud on account 

 of this one four-mile race. But grant liberal 

 bounties annually for several four-mile races, 

 and you will make it the interest of all who 

 start horses for those races to breed such as 

 they think best calculated to win them. 



Insist on proper tasks being performed in 

 return for more liberal bounties, and you will 

 soon find our "turf" abounding with horses 

 displaying a fine union of constitutional vigour, 

 physical strength, endurance, with sufficient 

 speed for every useful and pleasurable pur- 

 pose. It can matter nothing to the gentlemen 

 on the turf what is the average speed of their 

 horses. Their sole object is to win money, 

 and if endurance be in future made by more 

 liberal bounties as necessary to enable their 

 horses to perform the new tasks, as speed is 

 now to enable them to perform the present 

 tasks, the owners of our race-horses will be in 

 future as desirous to breed horses displaying a 



