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fathers even at that day knew that in 

 and in breeding-, alike in man and animals, 

 produced ill effects in progeny, and that 

 a. cross from a distinct family was pro- 

 ductive of good results. evid>'nce of 

 which had been before their eyes daily 

 for century, yet they did not recognise 

 that the perpetual use of Oriental stal- 

 lions mated to similar bi'ed mares must 

 in the long run, as it did, terminate in 

 the production of useless race-horses. 

 The good form which might have existed 

 primarily ultimatel}' decayed by close 

 breeding in the same family, whereas 

 among the cross-bred animals, the " se- 

 cond rate English race-horse, who could 

 beat them at anv weight and for any The cross- 



bred horse 



distance," — and why ? because he had ^^^• 

 acquired size and greater development of 



