92 A TREATISE ON HORSE-BREEDING. 



in the horse that is to prove a profitable cam- 

 paigner. No matter how much of mere speed 

 the get of any stallion may have shown, if, 

 as a rule, they have proven seriously defective 

 in any part of their machinery, he should be 

 avoided as a sire by those who are breeding for 

 speed, whether runners or trotters; for the race 

 course will quickly search out and bring to 

 light the least taint of unsoundness or weak- 

 ness in any part of the organization. Feet and 

 legs, and bones and tendons, and joints and 

 muscles, and heart and lungs, and brain and 

 eye, must each do its part thoroughly in the 

 great race horse. There must be that nice 

 adaptation of the machinery, and that firmness 

 and fineness of texture in the material of which 

 the machine is built, which shall enable it to 

 withstand the tremendous strain that is put 

 upon it, and which distinguished great cam- 

 paigners, like Lady Suffolk, Flora Temple, Gold- 

 smith Maid, English Eclipse, and his American 

 namesake, from the flashy ones that blaze out 

 for a single season, like a brilliant meteor, and 

 then sink into obscurity. 



It is this perfection of organism which ena- 

 bles the horse to stand up, under preparation 

 and training, year after year, profiting by his 

 education and improving with age, that makes 

 the really valuable race horse. It is a quality 

 more valuable than speed, because whatever 



