6 THE HORSE. 



man who buys one hopes to gain a prize ; 

 in fact, the idea of gain being excluded 

 from the calculation such animal would 

 hardly find a buyer, or at any rate, he 

 would fail to realise the heavy prices 

 usually obtained unless the race-course 

 loomed in the distance. 

 Gambling a IT or the past two hundred years the 



barrier to the 



of u P sefta ti0n * ove f racm g> or more properly, the 

 tendency to gamble, has prompted Eng- 

 lishmen to breed horses for the turf, 

 animals required only to exhibit one pace, 

 viz. to gallop ; the walk, the trot, &c., 

 not being a qualification demanded from 

 racing stock. The race-horse must gal- 

 lop; and to obtain this end the fastest 

 galloping parents have been selected 

 from year to year as the progenitors of 

 our thorough-bred horses. And this is 



