winner, and since the winners of these classics, which 

 could not be called sprint races, had always been the 

 animals most desired for breeding purposes. 



In spite of these promises and to our great regret, the 

 critics, either through disdain or from the difficulty of 

 finding arguments, kept silence and " La Foulee " re- 

 ceived no further mention. 



, Still there had arisen a latent trend of thought with 

 which perhaps our little study had something to do, a 

 trend in favor of the stayer. 



On December 12, 191 1, at the annual banquet of the 

 Gimcrack Club, Lord Villiers (now Earl of Jersey), rep- 

 resentative of the English Jockey Club, denounced the 

 sprinter. Soon afterward it was decided that there 

 should be, in England, no races shorter than five furlongs, 

 even for two-year-olds. This same rule was adopted 

 this year in Belgium. Finally the French Jockey Club 

 increased from 30,000 francs to 100,000 francs the added 

 money in the Prix du Cadran (25^ miles) and made 

 this an international race. 



These are precious symptons which justify the hope 

 that an idea is germinating which will tend toward the 

 greatest good of the Thoroughbred and the more intelli- 

 gent breeding of the saddle horse. 



But, to return to our pamphlet, it was easy to recog- 

 nize that it was lacking in one important point. It 

 touched only lightly upon and treated only incidentally 

 the question of the hind quarter. This question is, how- 

 ever, of great importance; in the first place, because in 

 every quadruped, a necessary harmony exists between 

 the fore hand and the hind quarter ; then further because 

 any modification, either of the fore hand or of the hind 

 quarter establishes in the mechanism compensations or 

 substitutions which it is indispensable to bring to light; 

 finally because, in our opinion, hippologists and horsemen 



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