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stakes encourage him to breed far greater 

 numbers. There being such numbers bred causes 

 the necessity of some vent for those offered 

 for sale. Numbers are bought up at three 

 years old to hold over to make hunters, and 

 those who buy them often get a fine colt at 

 three years old at half the cost he would have 

 been had the buyer bred him. Some are 

 bought by persons who think, and perhaps 

 justly too, that having a little land the colt 

 will pay for his keep as well as a given 

 number of sheep or a heifer or two. Some- 

 times they improve and pay well selling them 

 to make park hacks or ladies' horses, while on 

 the other hand many find their way into a 

 street cab and so " ends this great eventful 

 history." 



It may be said that if we find thorough 

 bred horses now a days bred so much as they 

 are with an eye to speed, (failing in this) make 



superior steeple chase horses and hunters, it 

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