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on trial are found to be very superior ; these tliey 

 keep, and dispose of the rest at cost price, or less ; 

 so may the breeder of race-horses, but then he must 

 also sell his casts-off at or under what they have cost 

 him. But supposing he does so, if he gets one out 

 of twenty that proves worth a couple of thousand, 

 even on this plan he may make money, if his judg- 

 ment of the merits, or promising merits, of racing 

 colts be good. 



There [can be no doubt but that a colt for racing 

 purposes will cost more in outlay than any other 

 colt must do ; but persons disposed to purchase racing- 

 stock are aware of this, and will take it into consi- 

 deration in the price they offer for them, unless they 

 are seen to be such as blood-stock but too often 

 shows itself, in which case they are more worthless 

 than any class of horses I know of — in short, are 

 worth literally nothing : such, however, except in a 

 very few instances, is not likely to be the case, if 

 dam and sire are well chosen. 



\yhen I speak of a man exhibiting judgment as to 

 the promise of racing-colts, I in no way mean that 



