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of these valuable stakes dropping into the hands of a 

 breeder in any district, it would act as a very powerful 

 stimulant to the energies of others, and in a few years, 

 the result would be the production of great numbers of 

 valuable horses, which, if not fast enough to win the 

 plates, would nevertheless be far superior to the best of 

 our present races, for general purposes. This would not 

 interfere with the existing rules of the Jockey Club, and 

 their short spurts with the present breed of calf-kneed, 

 antelope- shaped baby-jumpers, except that the increased 

 supply of useful, compact, short-legged horses would 

 put them to the trouble of destroying the refuse of their 

 studs, in place of distributing them all over the country 

 to degenerate the breed of such few of the old stamp as 

 we may still have left in a corner here and there, in- 

 herited from our grandfathers. 



CHAPTER III. 



THE FOEM AND ACTION OF GOOD SADDLE HOESES. 



GOOD roadsters are become so scarce in this country 

 that few people, except the wealthy, can obtain them, 

 and very few, in consequence, have experienced the 

 pleasure which riding one affords to a competent judge 

 of action. When a horseman sits on an animal of this 

 class, he need not take the trouble to pick his way 



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