Replies to Criticisms 



We shall refer only to articles raising objections 

 to the theories put forth in " Une Foulee de Galop." 

 They reduce themselves to two, one published by the 

 " Sport Universel Illustre " of July i8, 1909, over the 

 signature of its editor, J. Romain; the other published 

 by " Le Jockey " on July 24. 



Here we reproduce these articles : 



" Colonel Couste, who at present commands the re- 

 mount region of Tarbes, has, by his equine works, no- 

 tably his studies upon ' The Thoroughbred and the Trot- 

 ter Stud Books ' acquired a prominent position among 

 sporting writers. A very short but very substantial 

 pamphlet, just published by Lavauzelle, is not the least 

 interesting of his works ! ' Une Foulee de Galop de 

 Course ' contains only about thirty pages, but these few 

 lines tend to prove a capital fact : the change of model 

 caused in the modern thoroughbred by short distance 

 racing. 



" Our readers will remember M. de Gaste's ' Model and 

 Gaits ' ; his indictment of the trotter accused of mal- 

 formation, represented as a monstrous animal, incapable 

 of progressing except at the * flying-trot,' powerless 

 either to balance himself, or to move at slow gaits and 

 at the gallop. 



" Many skilled minds attached but little importance 

 to the ramblings of the author carried away by passion, 

 and that because they found in the high-class thorough- 

 bred the same direction of radii, and the same angular 

 values as in the great trotters. Why call a crime in the 

 half-bred that for which his elder brother was not re- 

 proached? 



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