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'' He is less likely from the real purity Biunt's 



opinion of 



of his blood to o;et those strange sports of ^^^^ iiorses. 

 Nature which are the curse of breeders, 

 misshapen offspring recalling some ancient 

 stain in not a stainless pedigree. The 

 true Arabian may be trusted to reproduce 

 his kind after his own image and likeness, 

 and of a particular type. It will rarely 

 happen to the breeders of Arabians that 

 a colt is born useless for any purpose in 

 the world, except, as they say, '' to have 

 his tln^oat cut, or be run in a hansom. 

 Whether he be bred a race-borse or not 

 he will always find a market as long as 

 cavalry is used in England or on the con- 

 tinent. He is a cheap horse to breed, 

 doing well on what would starve an 

 English thorough-bred, and requiring less 



stable work from his docility. Above all, 



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