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qualities we may take the evidence of a 

 contributor to the Field. 4< C. E. H." writes, 

 in an article on " A Texas Fair," published 

 in 1891 : 



" The native stock for endurance and soundness 

 of constitution cannot be surpassed. We have 

 owned many of these animals of from fourteen to fif- 

 teen hands, and never had an unsound one yet. 

 They will carry one 70 miles a day without tiring ; 

 and we sold a horse aged 8 years ten years ago, 

 which was lately disposed of for only $ less than 

 the sum we then received for him." 



The horses raised on the plains of Uru- 

 guay, on the River Plate, have much in 

 common with the mustang, but retain to a 

 greater degree the characteristics of their 

 remote Spanish ancestry in the small lean 

 head and well- turned limbs. They are 

 somewhat higher than the mustang, varying 

 between 14 and 15 hands, seldom exceeding 

 the latter height ; but the natives attach no 

 importance to hands and inches, it being an 

 acknowledged fact that the smallest horses 

 are in many instances the best. Accustomed 

 to run at large until between four and five 

 years old, these horses are sound and hardy, 

 capable of carrying fourteen or fifteen stone 

 all day without tiring and able to perform 

 hard and continuous work on little food. 

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