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ters little how the racehorse goes m his slow paces ; 

 but he must go well in his fast ones ; in fact, though 

 we cannot exactly detect his action when at speed, it 

 is quite certain it is such as enables him to go fast, 

 so it is good action for him. With the hunter we 

 must not indulge in fancy as regards his action ; he 

 has arduous duties to perform, and must go really 

 well. If we permitted our fancies to guide us as 

 respects his action, he might be admired by the mere 

 tyros at the meet, but, like many of those, would not 

 be seen after the first ten minutes. We cannot 

 afford to be guided by fancy as to the action of the 

 racehorse ; for winning or losing the Two Thousand 

 would be rather an expensive price to pay for fashion 

 or fancy. 



But we will suppose our young purchaser of horses 

 has a fancy as to action in his horses ; and so far as 

 road horses are concerned, the consequence of that 

 fancy being good or bad will amount to this — he will 

 in the first case have his work well done by them, 

 they will be admired, and if he chooses to dispose 

 of one or more of them he will get a fair price for 



