" A thousand other examples come to my mind. I can 

 still see Allah, the brother to Ajax, an animal with the 

 most extended lines possible, running at six furlongs, 

 making hardly three strides, while his adversaries were 

 doing four, leaving them as if they were tied to a tree at 

 the start, and being smothered by fatigue, although theo- 

 retically he should have expended much less energy than 

 his short striding neighbors, thanks to his restful period 

 of suspension. 



It is nevertheless true that, from the saddle horse point 

 of view, the conformation toward which the thorough- 

 bred increasingly is tending is open to criticisms. 



"But what is the remedy? Colonel Couste, like so 

 many others, expresses the desire to see less sacrifices to 

 precocity, to see distances increased, but he expresses 

 these wishes without much hope that they ever will be 

 realized. 



■' So many considerations are against a radical change 



(J. Romain, July i8, 1909.) 

 (From " Le Jockey.") 



Colonel Couste, formerly of the " Corps des Ecuy- 

 ers," now commanding the remount region of Tarbes, 

 has just published under the title, " Une Foulee de Galop 

 de Course," a pamphlet, which all those interested in the 

 thoroughbred race will read with the liveliest interest 

 and the greatest benefit. The author is besides not un- 

 known to breeders, and the authority which attaches to 

 his name increase the worth of his new work: 



" Using the methods of measurement which M. de 

 Gaste brought into prominence for trotters, he scientific- 

 ally shows the changes which have come about in the 

 shape and proportions of the race horse. The results 



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