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Australians will you have — each and every foal will 

 bear testimony to the vulgar origin of the mother ; 

 all you would get would be common-place colts, in 

 some particulars improved by the sire ; in others, all 

 you would get at best would be an amended breed of 

 common-class horse, or a miserably deteriorated kind 

 of blood, or rather half-blood horse, a kind of mon- 

 grel, less useful than the mother for common pur- 

 poses, with no pretensions to higher ones. It would 

 be possible to make a gentleman of the son of a coal- 

 porter and a washerwoman, if taken from his parents 

 before he could talk or understand, though it would 

 not perhaps often succeed ; but nothing can make a 

 race-horse or j&rst-class hunter of the produce of a 

 mare with cart-blood in her veins. 



Education, as we all know, will do wonders for 

 man, be his family what it may ; education and prac- 

 tice will also do much for horses ; but for purposes 

 for which high caste is necessary, the want of it in 

 the progeny is irremediable. 



In breeding for racing purposes, a mare of favourite 

 and running blood will always command a strong 



