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Duke of Wellington rode a three-year-old colt, "Copenhagen,'' 

 all day, — till Blucher, night, and victory came. Blood shows 

 in nothing so much as in early maturity. Mares should not 

 be too old, nor worn out with hard work. They must be 

 sound, good feeders, and with room enough to carry a foal, 

 and they do better if carefully worked until very near the 

 time of foaling. 



High breeding, good size, not less than fifteen hands three 

 inches, with beauty of form and docility of temper, must 

 invariably be had in the sire. Like produces like. The 

 Arabs claim that the foal follows the sire, and there is a great 

 deal of argument to be adduced in support of that theory, 

 though the writer knows that a good mare must be had also. 



Size, color, beauty of form and temper, can be bred with 

 almost absolute certainty, and these qualities secured, a profit- 

 able colt is the invariable result. Nor is there any mystery 

 about the business, as many writers and amateur horsemen 

 are fond of asserting that there is. Any man who is fit to be 

 a farmer, can raise a horse and handle him. If he breeds a 

 proper mare to a proper sire, he can readily get a good, 

 salable animal, and secure as great a percentage of profit as 

 he expects from any of the commoner avocations of his 

 business. 



John E. Russell, Chairman. 



