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in England. At each of the above-mentioned 

 meetings are those fine large long-striding horses 

 found to be running; yet such horses, generally 

 speaking, are seldom heard much of after running 

 at the above-named places; they are therefore 

 afterwards frequently turned to the stud. 



Now, the low lengthy horse of substance, al- 

 though, as I have already observed, that his speed 

 as a young one, at two or three years old, may in 

 some degree have left him, yet afterwards be- 

 comes stout and capable of running on under 

 high weights, at long lengths, over any sort of 

 course, whether hilly or otherwise, and being, as 

 he mostly is, a round-goer, he is tolerably handy 

 at his turns ; and whenever such a horse is running 

 in the company of long-striding horses on a small 

 cock-pit or whip-top sort of course, he is almost 

 certain to be a winner. Indeed, as far as my own 

 observations have gone on this subject, I think 

 there is no comparison to be made as to which of 

 the two horses are of the most general utility. I 

 certainly prefer the low lengthy horse of substance 

 to the tall, oversized, leggy, long striding one. 



I now come to describe, in as clear a manner as 

 I am capable of, how I think a horse should be 



