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see a fox found ; and giving no allowance to the 

 horse called " half-bred.'' Let the best hunter 

 win, which would encourage the breeding of strong 

 thorough-bred horses, w^hich make the best hunters 

 of any — a fact no one who has ridden many of 

 them will deny. 



Weatherby's GrENERAL Stud-Boox. — To assist 

 in the detection of spurious blood, and the correc- 

 tion of inaccurate pedigrees, is the chief purpose of 

 this excellent publication, now increased to a third 

 volume, and forming a part of every sportsman's 

 library. Some attempts have been made by Mr. 

 John Lawrence, a voluminous, but by no means a 

 correct, writer on the Horse, to disturb the pedi- 

 grees of several of the first stallions of their time, 

 and from which several of the distinguished racers 

 of the present day are descended ; and all upon 

 hearsay evidence, without being able to substan- 

 tiate one single fact in proof of his vague assertions. 

 He has doubted the pedigree of Echpse, put the 

 blood of Sampson into Highflyer, where it never 

 existed, and has thought proper to pronounce 

 Sampson to have been a low-bred horse, on the 

 authority of some old Yorkshireman he picked up 

 on the road, although in his last work on the 

 Horse, he admits him to have been one of '• the 

 truest four-mile horses that our Turf has produced ; 

 was but once beaten, and also proved a capital 

 stallion, as sire of Bay Mollon, Engineer," &;c. 

 Such matters as this would be scarcely worthy of 

 notice, were it not with a view of cautioninfj the 



