THE HORSE; 



HIS AMERICAN VARIETIES AITD BREEDS. 



The tlioronglibred horse of America having been treated in 

 extenso in the wliole of the first volume, which is devoted solely 

 to that branch of the subject, it is mj purpose, in this, to deal 

 with the various races and types of the animal in general use, 

 of breeding, conditioning, stabling, breaking, and managing in 

 general. 



The thoroughbred horse of America is the only family of the 

 horse, on this continent, of pure and unmixed blood. N"or can 

 even this pretension be made out to satisfaction, in all cases, 

 even where the American thoroughbred can trace directl}^ in l^h 

 lines, to imported English thoroughbred dam and sire. 



For, as it has been shown in the preceding volume, many of 

 the most distinguished English race-horses, distinguished as sires 

 no less than runners, cannot establish an unquestionable descent 

 on both sides, from oriental sire and oriental dam ; which is, of 

 course, requisite to constitute a perfect thoroughbred. 



Under this category, falls Eclipse himself, who traces, in the 

 female line, to Brimmer, a son of the D'Arcy Yellow Turk, and 

 a Eoyal mare, out of a dam, concerning whom no record has 

 been received — Blank, son of the Byerly Turk, and an unknown 

 dam — Whynot, who in the female line runs also to the Byerly 

 Turk and an unknown dam — Grey Hautboy, by Hautboy, son 



