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produce, it is quite possible few, if any of them, may 

 run a yard ; this once found, of course his career as 

 a sire, as regards the public, is over ; and instances 

 do occur, where the best of horses, let them serve 

 what mares they will, never beget a colt fit, in tech- 

 nical terms, to " run for a man's hat;" yet it is by 

 no means impossible, that if one of those were used as 

 a sire, his get might run as well as his grandsire ; 

 there seems a something, as it were, latent in blood, 

 for which no one can account, but which causes its 

 efforts to totally fail in one instance, yet shews 

 itself conspicuously when least expected ; but on an 

 average, running blood is sure to tell. 



A man proposing to keep sires should be careful 

 to have them of different known merits, so as to have 

 one among them likely to suit the different mares 

 brought to them ; for instance, it would have been 

 very bad policy (had they all been procurable at the 

 same time) to have purchased Velocipede, Bay Mid- 

 dleton, and Eagle, to stand at the same establish- 

 ment ; for the chief merit of each of these would be 

 of tlie same kind, so the choice of either would be 



