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colt, which, at five years of age, shall command a thou- 

 sand dollars for every year of his age : but it costs time, 

 attention, and considerable money, to insure such a re- 

 sult. An ordinary dam will not produce such a colt. 

 An ordinary stallion will not beget such an animal. To 

 raise a handsome and fast-moving colt, you must have 

 handsome and fast-moving parents to bring him forth, 

 and favorable conditions of birth and culture such as 

 money and intelligence can alone provide. Like pro- 

 duces like ; and a fine-blooded colt must have fine-blood- 

 ed parentage. This is a law ; and no one can escape its 

 application. Stallions whose service can be obtained 

 for ten or twenty dollars, and mares of low blood and 

 negative characters, can never beget or conceive such a 

 foal. If you are willing to pay for a mare, and for the 

 service of a stallion, of the needed character, and then 

 are willing to bestow upon the dam, before and after the 

 foal is cast, the proper management, your expectation 

 can be realized ; otherwise not. Luck has nothing to do 

 with breeding. Knowledge, and a wise use of means, 

 can alone secure you what you desire. You can ignore 

 this rule, and fail ; you can comply with it, and succeed. 

 The election rests with yourself 



I will now proceed to suggest certain facts, and items 

 of information, of a character to assist the breeder in 

 his enterprise. I say, suggest ; for no statement which I 

 may make is supposed to be able to take the place of 

 thought on the part of the breeder. You must use your 

 own mind, reader, say what I or any one may. My 



