4b COLONEL HANOER TO 



sportsman has a mare (for argument's sake, 

 we will say) which is a sister to King He- 

 rod, and a horse which is brother to Eclipse. 

 They neither of them have any good shape, 

 make, nor symmetry, and run so very bad 

 that he is obliged to turn them out of 

 training ; but, as they are brother and sis- 

 ter to two such famous racers, he puts the 

 horse and the mare together, and, being 

 both of such excellent blood, he expects to 

 have them produce a colt, which will run 

 well. Can any thing be so absurd ? Be 

 assured, there is nothing more certain than 

 that shape, make, and symmetry xvill beget 

 shape, make, and symmetry ; and that twQ 

 very bad racers, without any good shape, 

 make, or symmetry, can never produce a 

 good racer. 



There is one method by which j^ou may 

 perhaps have a good colt, by a very mean, 

 bad-shaped mare, with this one proviso, 

 that she be roomy in the flanks, and has a 

 large bag, sufficiently so to contain a good- 

 sized colt. Send her to the best racer of 

 his time, and you may have a good colt ; 

 but not by a horse which never in his life 



