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erating — " falling off" — " not what they used to be," while 

 horses bred from other sources — those that the racer discards 

 and leaves entirely to the farmer — are " improved in value." 



Here we have an epitome of the history of racing upon 

 both sides of the Atlantic — the whole thing in a nutshell. 

 The race-horses are failing; the farmers' horses are im- 

 proving. 



We sincerely believe that the farmers of our country are 

 the only men possessing the intelligence, the enterprise, the 

 moral character, and the standing necessary to successfully 

 conduct the great work of reform and progress in respect 

 to the horse. It behooves them, as men of this character, to 

 frown down the system of racing as an unqualified abuse of 

 the horse and a potent agency of iniquity and vice. 





