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because, being full of cart-horse blood, they 

 have straight shoulders, and, what is worse, 

 their fore-feet greatly too much under them. 

 Then their low breeding makes them quickly 

 tire after trotting one or two miles, when 

 their action undergoes a change, by their be- 

 ginning to step short — next to show the rider 

 their shoes — then to trip — and, if not soon 

 pulled up, to fall. I have known several 

 persons of the class now described, whose 

 sedentary labours were of no small importance 

 to their country, whose health would have been 

 much improved if they had been able to get 

 daily exercise on horses sufficiently safe. 



I have said that our hunters and hacks, not 

 now able to carry more than a light weight, have 

 less racing blood in their veins than the same 

 classes had in the recollection of many persons 

 now living. Formerly, horses when capable of 

 carrying fourteen stones of weight, were so 

 well bred as not only never to have their coats 

 clipped in winter, but never to require it ; and 

 this was the case for some years after the com- 

 mencement of this century. 



Then, up to nearly the end of the last cen- 

 tury, what long journeys people made in a day ! 



