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you want a horse that will nearly kill himself in two minutes, 

 rather than be overtaken ; in the other you want a horse to 

 contentedly strut about the streets of a city, with a glossy coat, 

 a great load of beef, and allowing nothing to move him from the 

 even tenor of his way. You cannot speak even of either of these 

 extremes as good or bad. Both are good in their place. 



583. — The large heart and lungs of the sanguine tempera- 

 ment must be present in every successful racer, but every race 

 horse must also be highly nervous and highly fibrous. The 

 different proportions of these two temperaments, in different race 

 horses, often quite imperceptible to the eye, is what principally 

 decides the distance at which they are best. If only duly nervous 

 the horse will be a long stayer, if excessively nervous he will 

 exhaust his best powers in the first half mile. 



584. — The highly nervous horse can never be mistaken. 

 Every portion of the body, and every motion will give some 

 indication of that temperament. The skin will be thin and 

 sensitive, the bones small, the pulse quick, and easily affected by 

 any thing done to, or near the horse. The thin lips will 

 be highly compressed, the prominent eye will catch everything 

 that moves, either far or near, and the small, thin, trans- 

 parent ear will be in frequent quick motion. The walk 

 will incline to a dance, and the gallop to a rapid succession of 

 springs. 



585. — The fibrous temperament will be distinguished by a 

 calmer activity, by a fuller development of well packed and well 

 defined muscles, by somewhat larger bones and sinews, but still 

 hard, clean, and wiry. The lips will be equally compressed, the 

 eye more calm, the ear almost equally quick in its movements, 

 but kept longer in one direction. The skin rather thin but not 

 so sensitive ; the movements rapid, free, fearless, and prodigal of 

 force ; the walk more progressive and less dancing, and the 

 gallop a long, fearless, forcible stride. 



586. — The lips will give the first indication of a very 

 lymphatic temperament. They will hang loose, be soft and 

 flabby, and not closely compressed, the lower lip often hanging 

 below the upper one. The ears will be large and thick, and slow 



