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as good and honest a horse as ever ran, had a very 

 hirofe head. To come to recent racers, that most 

 capital of sires and race-horses, Touchstone, had 

 no deer-like head, though an honest looking one ; 

 Cymba, a late winner of the Oaks, has a head more 

 like collar work than racing ; Mendicant, another 

 Oaks winner, has a large, I may say very large, 

 head ; Van Tromp has a really ugly head, added 

 to not the handsomest body in the world ; and 

 that capital and truly honest horse St. Lawrence 

 has a head showin<T less breedino; than I should 

 wish in the head of a hunter. The reader or buyer 

 would, therefore, be very unw^ise in rejecting any 

 horse, because he may have a larcje head ; for it 

 is no proof at all of want of breeding : there is, 

 however, one peculiarity in the form of the head 

 of the race-horse in which he is very rarely indeed 

 deficient — this is, that, however large his head 

 may be from the top to the bottom of the jaAV, 

 we may mostly, in figuraiive stable language, 

 "put their nose in a quart pot." I do not know 

 or recollect one coarse from the jaw downwards, 

 and this common bred horses usually are. No- 

 thing, in my estimation, can be so disgusting as 

 this, or at once so fully evinces vulgarity of 

 origin. Be a head as large as it may upwards, we 

 may say, as a huntsman said of a favourite hound, 

 "if his head is large, he has a great deal of sense 

 in it ; " but a head large below the jaw, looks like 



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