74 THE HORSE. 



*' family lines" at a glance; and does 

 not reference to the 'VBlue Book" tell 

 us a tale the exact meaning of which we 

 fail to comprehend ? 



In 1750 we had produced, by crossing, 

 a race-horse so perfect that it was dis- 

 covered to be detrimental to continue 

 the application of Oriental horses to ex- 

 isting breeds. What have we done 

 We continue siucc ? We havc contiuucd to bretid 



to breed 



withm the within the strain made perfect one hun- 



same strain a 



^ars ago.^°* ^^^'^^ years ago, without having recourse 

 to the inoculation which did so much 

 good when Admiral Rous' s garrans were 

 running. Perhaps up to the present 

 time we have been able to breed good 

 horses, but of late years ; and many 

 horsemen assert that we do not possess 

 such good horses now as we did sixty 



