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independent of all gambling interests ? 

 There are exceptions, of course, and I 

 should say about one breeder in a 

 thousand breeds for his country's good. 

 That's not many, is it ? and it won't 

 take many fingers to count them. If, 

 as a middle-class man of moderate means, 

 you have an inclination to breed a few 

 thoroughbreds either for sale as year- 

 lings or to race yourself, buy a few 

 mares, as your accommodation or means 

 allow — winners preferred, free from mal- 

 formation or hereditary disease, big and 

 roomy, any whole colour except greys 

 or roans, mind they stand square on 

 their legs, and walk and trot square in 

 their action to you and from you — and 

 put them to a stallion of a similar stamp 

 at a moderate fee, and you will very 

 likely breed a race-horse ; but if at two 

 years old your colt is too slow for flat- 



