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racing, you can lay It by for steeple- 

 chasing or hunting, or as a stallion for 

 the home or foreign market. You will 

 always find a sale for your horse if he 

 comes anything like true to his parent- 

 age, and will not have to part with him 

 for a tenner. 



Perhaps one reason why I emphasize 

 the desirability of them standing and 

 moving true Is because I at one time 

 held a commission to buy stallions for 

 a foreign government to sire troopers, 

 and I know how exceedingly difficult 

 suitable horses are to find. A Leicester- 

 shire hunter may be forgiven for having 

 to wear boots on his fetlocks or pasterns 

 if he belongs to a man with a big stud, 

 and can carry his owner In front of 400 

 tearing and envious followers for forty 

 minutes from Ranksboro' Gorse or Bllles- 

 don Coplow one day a week or once in ten 



