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tlieir customers are quite as much, indeed more, 

 influenced by appearance than the dealer would 

 probably be, if purchasing for his own use. They say 

 " a saint in silk is twice a saint in lawn :" this may 

 be the case ; but we do not purchase horses for their 

 sanctity ; and on them a silky coat and beauty 

 covers perhaps many faults less objectionable than 

 want of good looks. We know that prodigies in 

 horses bear as high a value as prodigies in any 

 other living thing ; but we no more ensure the 

 possession of such from a plain than from a comely 

 sire; so I would most certainly endeavour to get 

 looks at any rate, for they are always a marketable 

 commodity. 



I am quite aware that the saving of twenty 

 pounds in the price of a dam, and perhaps two in 

 the price of a sire, may be an object in breeding 

 low-priced horses; but it is absolutely nothing in 

 breeding stock that we expect to fetch a hundred, 

 often much more, at four years old. 



There are many men who buy yearlings, in order 

 to be sure that they will be treated, as they 



