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thoroughbreds, would be chargers ou which a king might be 

 willing to do battle for his crown, or which a queen might be 

 proud to see harnessed to her chariot, on her coronation, I, for 

 one, would stake my reputation as a horseman. 



This, in a word, is what I think is most needed, and most 

 desirable to be done — to raise bj judicious selection of parents, 

 bj large and liberal nourishment of the mares, while in foal, 

 and by careful feeding, tending, and fostering the young ani- 

 mals — ^not forgetting to protect them from severe weather, and 

 sudden changes of temperature — the standard bone and muscle 

 of our common country mares, and then to breed them to the 

 best, and nothing but the best, blood-horses. 



And here I will pi'oceed to extract from the American edi- 

 tion of Youatt on the Horse, a letter to the American editor of 

 that work, from Edward Harris, Esq., of Moorestown, New 

 Jersey, descriptive of his pure imported Norman stock, and 

 giving his views in reference to the characteristics, which the 

 stock bred from his Xorman stallions are likely to possess, and 

 to the most judicious mode of introducing this blood. With 

 most of Mr. Harris's views I most cordially agree, especially in 

 his positively expressed opinion, that, with sufficient njargin 

 of time and money combined, with the possession of a large 

 landed estate, he, or any judicious breeder would produce the 

 vei^ hest of horses for all purposes^ that is to say the very hest 

 horse of all worTc, by breeding from the thoroughbred English 

 racer. 



The only point in which I entirely differ from him is, as to 

 the likelihood that the produce of " Diligence " — that is to say, 

 of a pure Xorman stallion, " and a large-sized thoroughbred 

 mare would be the desired result," that result being " a carriage 

 hoi^e sufficiently fashionable for the city market." 



" Should this fail," he adds, " I feel confident that another 

 cross from these colts " — that is to say, from stallions, the pro- 

 duce of a Norman horse and a thoroughbred mare — " will give 

 you the Morgan horse on a larger scale." 



In all this I utterly disagree with Mr. Harris, and am cer- 

 tain that he is in error — he admits that his horse Diligence has 

 not had thoroughbred mares stinted to him, but that " the mares 



