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fine union of qualities, as they now are to breed 

 horses wanting every quality but speed. 



No one dislikes gambling of every kind more 

 than I ; but so long as we have a great racing 

 establishment, patronized both by the Crown 

 and the Government, and paid annually a sum 

 of public money by way of bounty for a public 

 object, we ought to try at least to obtain for 

 the public some return for this outlay. 



If in commencing this new system it was 

 found, on trial, that our present breed of race- 

 horses could, without any admixture of fresh 

 blood, best perform the new tasks, no fresh 

 blood would be needed, and many of my 

 observations under that head, being thus proved 

 erroneous, would fall to the ground. If, on the 

 contrary, it should be found that our present 

 breed of horses could not compete in the per- 

 formance of the new tasks with horses that had 

 an admixture of fresh blood in their veins, 

 then that mixture, we may be assured, would 

 be generally had recourse to. If, on the other 

 hand, it was found that the new tasks were 

 best performed by Arabs of pure blood, then 

 that class of horse would be alone had recourse 



