40 DETERIORATED CONDITION OF 



during under long marches, and with the heavy 

 weight of a fully equipped soldier on his back. 

 What is most essential to a cavalry horse is 

 strong loins, for without these no horse can 

 properly carry the heavy weight of a fully 

 equipped soldier. 



Seeing what selection, carefully and long- 

 continued, on our turf has effected, when the 

 object in view became the single quality of 

 speed, and this in respect to a race which has 

 sprung from Arabs, we may reasonably antici- 

 pate much more important and durable results 

 from equally careful selection, when the object 

 has become a fine union of desirable qualities. 

 This change of system would be followed by a 

 loss of some speed on the turf, but what could 

 that matter to the public, or for any useful 

 purpose, seeing that the new class of horses 

 would have more endurance under severe exer- 

 tion, and more power to carry weight, while 

 gentlemen connected with the turf would win 

 and lose money with as much facility as at 

 present ? But the speed lost by our race- 

 horses would be amply made up to the public 

 by the additional speed gained by its useful 

 saddle-horses, and for this reason : in breed- 



