SPET5D IS MONEY. 4:10 



risees, with whom money is not only the greatest, but the only, 

 good. 



Now it cannot be denied, that, in a far more matter of fact 

 sense, than that in which time is said to be money, because out 

 of time we may, or may not, according to our own abilities and 

 other contingencies, make money, fast horses really are true, 

 hard money. For in the exact ratio of their speed, other things 

 being equal, will they command cash down. 



Whether it be right or wrong, wise or unwise in the world, 

 that it should be so, so it is ; and so long as the world will give 

 large prices for fast horses, that can make the time, and stay the 

 distance, so long do we opine that farmers, in general, and 

 horse-breeding farmers, in particular, will judge it to be for 

 their advantage to have their road-mare, if they keep one, or 

 their plough-mare, if they do not, of a likely kind to drop a 

 fast, well-sliaped, enduring foal — in case they take a notion to 

 throw her out of work for a while, and see if they can't get a 

 clever colt out of her — will judge it to be for their advantage 

 to stint her to a horse, which has shown himself by proof of 

 trial, to be a sure getter of fast, hardy, and sound ones — even, 

 if he have to pay a handful of dollars for his service, more than 

 for that of some loggy, lazy, swill-fattened drayhorse ; — and will 

 jndge it to be immeusely to his advantage, if he find himself, 

 at the end of three or four years, the owner of a young one, 

 which realizes him eight hundred or a thousand, becanse he can 

 go away down in the thirties, or half as much again, because 

 he has the style, pace, action and speed to make a general offi- 

 cer's battle-charger, or a match for a pair of round-steppers, 

 which, together, will command three or four thousand, from a 

 city dealer — Neighbor JSTo-advantage-in-speed-Sour-Grapes, to 

 the contrary notwithstanding. 



Now to the production of the animals of the types I de- 

 scribe — I care not which of them — the blood sire is a requisite. 

 And the better blood, the better I mean, for its proved trans- 

 mission of speed and lasting, and the more of it, the better 

 will be the foal ; whether he turn out a trotter, a charger, a 

 hunter, a roadster, a carriage horse, or a mere machineer. 



In whichever of these capacities he is fitted by his strength, 

 eize, weight, bone, show, speed, carriage, and action to excel, 



