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ing hunters or hacks now strong enough to 

 carry more than very light weights, we dare 

 not have recourse to much racing blood, be- 

 cause, if we did, the produce would want phy- 

 sical strength. Thus, we have scarcely any 

 saddle-horses able to carry fourteen stones 

 which are not so full of bad blood that they 

 want both speed and endurance, while our bet- 

 ter bred horses are so deficient in strength that 

 they can carry but little weight. 



It is the wretched condition of our cavalry 

 which calls on Government so loudly to im- 

 prove, by its interference, the present supply 

 of our saddle-horses, but it would be desirable 

 to see a large class of the community able to 

 buy saddle-horses calculated to cany them 

 safely, and for a reasonable price. Besides 

 invalids, there is a large mass of persons in our 

 highly fictitious state of society, confined to 

 the house during the greater part of the day by 

 mental occupation, and of more or less public 

 importance. Many of these, no longer young, 

 have become somewhat heavy, and require, in 

 consequence, horses to carry them of consider- 

 able strength ; while such as are strong enough 

 to do this have become in the last degree bad, 



