THOROUGH-BRED HORSE, &e. 25 



city of chest, with width of loins, together with 

 breadth, length, and substance of his muscular 

 and tendonous system. If the symmetry of those 

 parts all coincide with each other, they are all of 

 them, in the blood horse, much more compact, or 

 closer in their texture, than the half-bred one. 

 This description of horse is, therefore, unincum- 

 bered with any superfluous matter. In short, the 

 thorough-bred horse, being well-formed, has con- 

 siderably more power in less compass than any 

 other horse that may not have been so highly bred. 

 The advantage this horse has over the coarse 

 half-bred one is, that he is capable, when it may 

 be required of him, to go longer lengths in his 

 gallops and sweats. A good training groom can, 

 therefore, bring his wind and muscular system to 

 greater perfection, by which this sort of horse is 

 enabled to run on longer racing lengths, with 

 much more ease to himself than any other horse 

 of larger dimensions, that may not, as I have be- 

 fore noticed, be quite so well bred. Those are 

 the assigned reasons why a thorough-bred horse 

 can almost always beat a half-bred one in a long 

 race, provided that the former be made proper 

 use of sufficiently early in the running, what- 

 ever the length of the course may be, as a mile 

 or two, or more. 



