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a stallion. However, the importation did not turn 

 out a success ; but might he not have been injured 

 in the voyage, or the purchaser been wrong in his 

 selection ? To successfully clear a rasper, there is 

 nothing like going boldly at it ; so, without further 

 preamble, I believe that the introduction of a good 

 American stallion would be beneficial to those who 

 want to breed weight-carrying, fast, lasting horses. 



Three or four miles is no unfrequent distance for 

 a race to be run across the Atlantic, and it has 

 always struck me how wonderfully game all ap- 

 peared to finish, something like the Irishman's car- 

 horse, a spurt always remaining to take your honor 

 to the hall-door. 



The Americans run their youngsters in their two- 

 year-old form, but the weights up are very light, the 

 distances short, and the ordeal seldom required 

 oftener than three or four times in a season ; 

 therefore the occasion of accident that our colts 

 of the same age suffer from is materially reduced ; 

 in fact, if scratching in the United States was as 

 frequent as here, where the number of entries does 

 not exceed one-fourth of ours, they would have few 

 or no horses show at the post. 



For three and four year olds, the old system of 



