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for all to the Proprietors of Race Horses, who besides we would counsel to proceed 

 farther on the Course, than to be mere smatterers. We except, however, those 

 Noble Lords and Honourable Gentlemen who breed and train horses out of pure 

 ostentation, and with the mere view of ridding themselves of a superfluous and 

 burdensome load of cash. They need no advice they are in the right road. 



Thus, in the event considered on all sides, it may perhaps turn out best, to train 

 and race sound horses ; although some folks may jeer, and dub us conjurers, for 

 hazarding so monstrous a speculation. Perhaps also in breeding, it might be worth 

 while to consider the argument of Mr. Cline, and pay more attention to the size of 

 the Mare, and less to that of the Stallion : and also that of John Lawrence, which 

 goes to the paying less attention to the fashionable blood, and more to the form of 

 both Stallion and Mare. We cite his Christian name, because John is not Richard 

 even as Richard, in days past, published an advertisement with his book, to 

 assure the Public, that Richard is not John ! His friend Count Veltheim, in 

 his late judicious remarks on English horses, is perfectly just, on the striking in- 

 feriority of form to be observed in the brood mare, compared with the stallion. 

 We should certainly be gainers in every point of view, individual and national, by 

 breeding for form equally as for blood and size ; but we do not assert this without 

 experience of the difficulties in the case, of the length of time, the attention, the 

 brains, and the care required ; and that it would be, to use an ancient and vulgar 

 phrase to make a toil of a pleasure. 



Not however to be so fashionable, as to overlook the altera pars of the question, 

 we present the reader with some facts collected by a Sportsman some v years since, 

 which appear as a contra-indication to the theory of Mr. Cline ; being 1 in favour of 

 the common practice of chusing superior size in the Stallion, since the Mares 

 hereafter quoted, no doubt, bred, almost universally, by horses of far larger size 

 than themselves. The Sportsman alluded to, after many years experience of the 

 Turf and the Breeding Stud, decided that, there were more good brood mares of a 

 moderate size, that is, from fourteen hands two inches, to fifteen hands in height, 

 than of a greater size. Among a great number of examples which he adduced in 

 proof of this decision, the following are selected 



The famous Widdrington Mare. 



Madge, the dam of Miss Cleveland. 



The Hartley Little Mare. 



Mr. Pratt' s Squirt Mare. 



Colonel O' Kelly's Tartar Mare. 



Mr. Cradock's Syphon Mare, the dam of Pencil, $v?, 



Queen Mob. 



Faith, by Pacolet, dam of Marcia, fyc. 



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