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this book is hardly likely to be a 

 purchaser of other than a specimen 

 of a " light breed." Then again, it is 

 impossible in the space at disposal to 

 deal with the history of those breeds, 

 or to trace, say, the effect which the 

 introduction of Arabian blood by 

 James I. and Charles I. has had upon 

 the thoroughbred. Such information, 

 valuable although it is to the student, 

 would be out of place here, for it is 

 with present-day requirements rather 

 than the particulars furnished by that 

 valuable work, the Stud Book, which 

 we have to consider. 



When the tyro decides that he will 



