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is ample evidence not only to show that the horse's 

 mind can be developed if time and trouble are taken 

 in the process, but that the results fully justify the 

 labor expended. Osmer would have us believe that 

 the excellence of horses is altogether mechanical and 

 not in the blood; others believe in blood only; but 

 surely brains must and do count. 



There is another reason why the mind-training- of 

 horses should be taken up and encouraged, and that 

 is for the good of future generations; the process 

 must necessarily be slow, but if carried out system- 

 atically " stupid " horses should not be so common in 

 the future. I must repeat that Trixie's was an ex- 

 ceptional case : she was the product of three genera- 

 tions of the higher education. 



