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rejected from the racing-stables. This is 

 particularly the case at East Greenwich, and 

 throughout the States. Some of these horses 

 are " weeds," but a few of them are well 

 worthy of the high prices given for them, 

 being really splendid animals, in spite of the 

 crabbing which they receive at the judge's 

 hands before they are thrown out of the con- 

 test, and passed over to the proprietorship of 

 dealers in hacks. 



Very fine horses of the hunter class are bred 

 in Kentucky — the Yorkshire of America — and 

 are sold at comparatively low rates. I saw a 

 magnificent chestnut, seventeen two in height, 

 with grand action, and so superbly ribbed-up 

 and built as to be capable of carrying twenty 

 stone, which had been sold there to an enter- 

 prising Irish speculator for three hundred and 

 twenty dollars, a good deal less than eighty 

 pounds of our money. The animal afterwards 

 fetched upwards of six hundred guineas at 

 Tattersall's, to carry a top-weight millionaire 

 with the Whaddon Chase hounds. This 

 was, however, an exceptional case, for it 

 is not usually an easy thing, nor even possible, 



