ity — since he could compete at equal weights with the 

 English horse, and even beat him on his own ground 

 (witness the victories of Monarque, Fille-de-l'Air, Glad- 

 iateur, Jongleur, Chamant, Verneuil, Rayon-d'Or, etc.) 

 — this admirable horse is by recent conditions eliminated 

 from the turf, eliminated from the studs and destined to 

 disappear if he has not already done so. 



We have quoted " Sincere's " cry of warning; others 

 have been uttered by persons eminently qualified to do it. 

 They do not seem to have been heard. Perhaps there was 

 too much insistence on a point easily disputed; we mean 

 the lack of substance for which our present-day horse 

 has been criticized. 



There always have been big horses and little horses, 

 and it is easy to mention such prominent animals as 

 d'Ermak, Vinicius, Val-d'-Or, Maintenon, Sea-Sick, and 

 so many others who are not a bit less developed than the 

 most remarkable models of former times, for instance, 

 Chamant, Verneuil, Saxifage, Rayon-d'-Or; but the es- 

 sential difference is that the little horses of former times 

 were rang}^ in their lines, while the biggest and heaviest 

 horses of to-day lack length ; they appear to be small, the 

 standard and the scales are needed to realize their height 

 and weight. 



It is right that the stayer should have a strong skeleton, 

 but he will never be a beefy animal, and the enormous 

 muscular relief which is so much admired in our present- 

 day horse gives but a poor account of itself over a dis- 

 tance. 



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It is now time to sum up this already too lengthy study. 

 We do not claim to have discovered that the model of 

 thoroughbred has essentially changed, but we believe that 

 we have fixed upon the direction of these changes ; we 

 believe that we have proved that these changes were fatal, 



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