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their career, as race-horses, is usually shortly stopped 

 also from the same cause. 



That very compact, closely-knit, '' tied up" horses 

 are not usually very speedy ones, I must admit to be 

 the case ; still they may be race-horses where dis- 

 tance and high weights would bring the spindling 

 flyers back to them ; so, if among a lot of such, he 

 does not get any one pre-eminent as a race-horse, he 

 gets a lot of useful animals ; and in buying them of 

 good size, shape, make, and strength, he nearly 

 places himself in the position of the man who breeds 

 a good sort for hunting and other purposes, the dif- 

 ference being that the stock of the one will be three- 

 quarters that of the other thorough-bred ; and pro- 

 bably the very causes that prevent the latter being 

 race-horses, will make them first-rate hunters, and 

 superior horses for other purposes ; for, though a very 

 bad race-horse is usually a most useless animal, it is 

 only when they are weedy that they are so, for, in 

 that case, if they have not speed enough to race, they 

 have not strength or stamina enough for other pur- 

 poses. 



