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and extent of thigh, large finews, and flat bones. 

 I have often obferved that con vul five fnatching 

 up, and turning out tlie fore feet, in the gait of 

 horfes faid to be x'\rabians, and have ever looked 

 upon it as the indication of a fpurious breed ; 

 the belt Arabs, which I have {^ecn, having been 

 good goers, many of them true daifey cutters. 

 The pawing-method of going cannot always be 

 the confequence of menage, fmce I have re- 

 marked it to defcend from a reputed Arabian, 

 through feveral generations. 



To afTifl; the reader in forming adequate 

 ideas of the phenomenon of blood in horfes, I 

 will arrange before him certain data, which reft 

 upon the ground of conflant and invanable ex- 

 perience, namely — Fine and delicate horfes, the 

 natives of warm climes, excel in fwiftnefs ; the 

 moft perfeft of thefe were originally found in 

 Arabia, but they are improvable in their de- 

 fcendants by a more fruitful country : the Ara- 

 bians tried in England have never proved 

 themfelves in any refpeft, equal upon the courfe 

 to the Englifli racers, the defcendants of their 

 blood. Although the general charafteriftic of 

 thorough-blood is fpeed, yet the final teff is not 

 fpeed, but continuance, hnce many common or 

 half-bred horfes have been known to poffefs 

 racing fpeed, but no inflance has evei occurred 

 of its continuance in thofe, beyond perhaps half 

 a mile ; the powers of continuance increafe in 



proportion 



