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heavy and large carcases, or to produce an unnatural 

 tendency to throw up fat, results to be more dreaded 

 in the racing colt than in the one destined to other 

 purposes. An habitual tendency to throw up flesh to 

 such a degree as involves the necessity of unusually 

 severe exercise, and sweats, over and above a fair 

 share of work, occasions calls upon the animal system 

 that must produce premature decay somewhere. Of 

 all things, keep me from such a race-horse, though I 

 should cherish such a breed of bullocks. A gross 

 appetite in man or quadruped is as much the result 

 of habit, as is any other undesirable propensity ; and 

 nothing produces it so much as too rank and luxu- 

 riant pasturage, or green food, given in improper 

 quantities. 



The commonly-received opinion, that green food 

 is naturally the food of the horse, should be enter- 

 tained with considerable reserve : that growing, but 

 not artificial, herbage is so, I admit to its fullest 

 extent ; but be it remembered, that in the countries 

 to which the finest breeds of horses are indigenous, 

 the pasturage, at all times scant, is in summer, 



