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dress his paddocks, and his stud is one of the 

 most successful in every way. 



I candidly think that inbreeding so much to 

 Galopin and Simon has been the principal cause 

 Deterioration ^^ *^^ majority of our present day race- 



of tiie horses becoming unreliable, 

 tliorougli- . . 



bred's con- Their constitutions generally will not 



stitution g^^j^(j |.j^g work, or anything Hke what 

 the stock of Musket and other stout-bred sires 

 used to take ; and when we think of the starting- 

 gate and hurried training preparation they are 

 subjected to now compared with the past, and the 

 rapid transit to and from the meetings, is it to be 

 wondered at ? Most of the horses running at the 

 suburban meetings arrive in the morning, and often 

 after their race, bathed in sweat, rush for the horse- 

 box special without even time to be rubbed down. 

 Under these conditions I'm sure the excitement 

 of the race-course is kept up until they have settled 

 down in their own boxes at home, some taking 

 days to recover. 



Cornstalk, as a son of Trenton, one of the 



stoutest of horses, should be in far greater request 



among breeders. I know when certain 

 A stout ^ 



sire mares are mated to some of to-day's 

 °^^ ^ sires that the progeny will be a failure 



before they even get on a race-course. 



You cannot go far wrong when trying horses if 



