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tion of the Eastern breeds, or the increased difficulty 

 of obtaining the superior? True enough there is 

 much uncertainty in the whole racing system. An 

 extensive breeder from the highest reputed stock, 

 may have the chance to breed very few horses worth 

 training, and a capital racer shall prove a very unpro- 

 fitable stallion. The inferiority of the new blood, in- 

 tending that of the horses imported since the Godol- 

 phin Arabian, was becoming gradually more and more 

 apparent, about the period above referred to ; in latter 

 days it has become almost literally useless, since 

 scarcely any breeder will send his mares to an Ara- 

 bian, the general term now for an Eastern horse. In 

 the days of Eclipse and Highflyer, there were gene- 

 rally half a score foreign stallions in the annual 

 list; of late years, seldom above one or two. The 

 Sporting Magazine for June, the present year, an- 

 nounces three pure Arabians to cover, of which por- 

 traits will be given in the next successive numbers of 

 the Magazine. Their names, Paragon — the milk- 

 white Arabian, Signal, the property of the Hon. 

 Arthur Cole — and Buckfoot, a silver grey Arabian. 

 The price of them about five guineas a mare. Cer- 

 tainly, by way of experiment, it ought to be an ob- 

 ject with our gentlemen trainers, to send some of 

 their best bred mares to these foreigners. In our 

 Indian empire (which, there exists a sanguine hope 

 that the light of the present times will shortly redeem 

 from the inveterate and blighting curse of monopoly), 

 as might be expected, racing has become very exten- 

 sive; and the horses imported from England, main- 

 tain their superiority on the course; but it is said, 



