THE RACE HORSE. 



PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENGLISH BREED 



MEANING OF THE TERM "BLOOD" EASTERN HORSES 



BREEDING WHAT CONSTITUTES A THOROUGH-BRED 



HORSE ? REARING OF YOUNG RACING STOCK IM- 

 PORTANCE OF WARMTH AND DRY FOOD FORM 



ACTION WIND TEMPER SPEED EXPENSES OF A 



BREEDING RACING STUD VALUE OF STAKES AND 



PRIZES COLOUR OF THE THOROUGH-BRED HORSE 



THE HALF-BRED RACER WETHERBy's STUD-BOOK. 



Although we may safely pronounce that the 

 native-breed of English horses, however esteemed 

 for other purposes, could not jrice^ in the present 

 acceptation of that word, yet it is equally obvious 

 that they formed the parent stock of the renowned 

 English racer. The first step to improve it by a 

 cross with eastern blood, appears to have been 

 taken by James the First, who gave the enormous 

 sum (in those days) of £500 for an Arab stallion, 

 which, however, the Duke of Newcastle, in his work 

 on Horsemanship, (great authority at that time.) 

 wrote down, on account, chiefly, of his compara- 

 tively diminutive size. At the Restoration, how- 

 ever, there appears to have been a tolerably good 

 breed of horses in Enaland, which Charles the 



