O THE HORSE. 



man who buys one hopes to gam a prize ; 

 in fact, the idea of gain being excluded 

 from the calculation such animal Av^ould 

 hardly find a buyer, or at any rate, he 

 would fail to realise the heavy prices 

 usually obtained unless the race-course 

 loomed in the distance. 

 Gambling a YoY the ])ast two liuudred years the 



barrier to the 



ofTsXf°'' love of racing, or more properly, the 

 tendency to gamble, has prompted Eng- 

 lishmen to breed horses for . the turf, 

 animals required only to exhibit one pace, 

 viz. to gallop ; the walk, the trot, &c., 

 not being a qualification demanded from 

 raciQo; stock. The race-horse must gal- 

 lop; and to obtain this end the fastest 

 galloping parents have been selected 

 from year to year as the progenitors of 

 our thorouo'h-bred horses. And this is 



