APPENDIX. 



SINCE this little book was placed in the printers' 

 hands, a work published in 1836 has come under the 

 writer's notice. This is entitled A Comparative View of 

 the Form and Character of the English Racer and Saddle 

 Horse during the Past and Present Centuries.* It was 

 written with the view of showing that the natural 

 qualities of the horse endurance, weight-carrying 

 power and speed maintained over long distances, 

 are found at their best in the horse which has been 

 reared under natural conditions and whose stature 

 has not been increased by " selection " in breeding 

 and by artificial conditions of life. In the opening 

 words of the Introductory chapter ; 



" The main object of these pages is to investi- 

 gate the results of that structural enlargement of 

 animals which is unnatural, to point out those pro- 

 perties which may be acquired by certain of them 

 when fully reclaimed, and those which they are 

 likely to lose in this condition. 



" The natural stature both of horses and cattle 

 is small compared with that which they acquire 

 when domesticated. The enlargement of their 

 structure is effected by grass made by art un- 

 naturally rich, or by food yet more foreign to their 

 nature. Supplied plentifully with either throughout 

 the year, horses acquire an increase of stature in 

 muscular power which enables them to carry or 

 drag a heavier weight. . . ." 



* Illustrated by eighteen plates of horses. Anon. Published by 

 Thomas Hookham, London. 



