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" daisy cutters," and their value for hacks is 

 thereby destroyed. 



I am, however, far from admiring that action 

 which displays much bending of the knees, 

 because it is always laborious in the trot or 

 gallop, usually indicates low breeding, and 

 always an action which does not come, as it 

 should do, from the shoulders. 



Let us now suppose that sufficiently liberal 

 bounties have been granted to our turf, and 

 the old tasks in consequence resumed upon 

 it ; that a sound, compact, and vigorous race 

 of horses is the result, and that in consequence 

 our farmers are able to breed good, instead of, 

 as at present, bad horses. The price of good 

 ones would then soon fall, while our farmers 

 would yet be better remunerated ; because 

 where they now breed one good saddle-horse, 

 they would then breed many, and at much less 

 expense. 



Good saddle-horses have long been so scarce 

 with us, that few people know the form of 

 one. Like good pictures, fine forms are best 

 understood where they most abound, it being 

 vain to reason with people upon forms of 

 either art or nature which they have never 



