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THE HORSE. 



The English 

 thorough, 

 bred has 

 absorbed 

 too much 

 attention. 



ones will be forthcoming to obliterate 

 from the racing programme early training 

 and the running of immature animals. 



Institute larger stakes for longer dis- 

 tances, and by this means horses will in 

 great measure be preserved from acci- 

 dents common to youth, and their powers 

 will then be conserved for greater feats 

 than this generation has seen. 



The English thorough-bred has, as be- 

 fore stated, absorbed the attention of the 

 nation to the exclusion of that due 

 amount of consideration that the general 

 utility horse deserved, and this, not 

 because he was not much wanted, but 

 owing to the eagerness with which men 

 devoted their energies to racing pursuits, 

 to a degree which never could have 

 occurred had not the maddening influ- 



