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Avhose blood may not be fashionable, may go away 

 and win his master money, which is all the man who 

 breeds to run wants ; but such a horse will not bring a 

 long price : he may be good to use, but not to sell. Those 

 bred to sell are or should be sold untried: so they 

 may be very good to sell ; but if one out of ten of 

 these prove really good to use, the man is fortunate 

 who gets him. The man who runs his horses, and 

 sells if he can, must get good ones, or they will not 

 sell. He must, still more than either of the other 

 breeders, breed so. as to get as far as possible great 

 strength and size : he can then save himself a little with 

 bad ones, for a very bad or at least a very slow one, 

 if big enough and strong enough, will command a 

 certain price for other purposes ; whereas a middling- 

 sized light race-horse that cannot run is worth com- 

 paratively nothing. Thus, in this breeder's case, a 

 good deal must be sacrificed in the choice of blood in 

 order to select such sires as generally get large stock. 

 I should say large and strong; for large horses without 

 strength are sad speculations. They may run two or 

 three times as young ones, but are then good for no 

 purpose on earth. 



Hunters, like all other horses, are of course some- 

 times bred for a person's own use, and at others for 

 sale. In the former case, a man breeds or tries to 

 breed horses adapted to his particular country or 

 particular notions of excellence ; acting on these 

 principles, of course different persons produce stock 

 of very different qualifications; and so long as a variety 

 of opinions among men exist, these different sorts of 

 stock are useful, and will sell provided they are good 

 of the sort, and the sort is go'od. The low strong 

 weight-carrier will be sought with avidity by many 



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