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price, though she may be, from accident, perfectly 

 useless for any other than breeding purposes : but it 

 is not so with the three-parts bred one ; any incura- 

 ble lameness that stops her quick work, brings her at 

 once from two hundred to twenty or less, unless her 

 owner is a breeder ; it must therefore be either the 

 most direct folly or the most wretched parsimony 

 that would induce any man to breed from an unlikely 

 or coarse-bred dam. Had I such a mare, and could 

 be persuaded into the very bad judgment of breeding 

 from her, I would far rather put her to a good sort 

 of half-bred country stallion than I would to Wild 

 Dayrel, could I even get the service of such a horse 

 for nothing. In the first case I should probably get 

 a useful and probably fine animal for certain pur- 

 poses, though I should anticipate little profit from 

 him in the latter ; for I should have an incongruous 

 admixture of the most common with the best blood, 

 an incongruity that would show itself in shape and 

 make, and probably in utility. There can be no 

 doubt but that this might be remedied by breeding 

 on, and eventually a very superior cocktail racer 



