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It is therefore alike desirable and important, that both the im- 

 ported and native supply of thorough-bred horses should command 

 more general attention ; and, above all, that the raising of racing 

 stock should be much encouraged. That especial arena of the 

 blood horse, the turf, has been found to combine the most direct 

 and popular means, to a valuable end, as regards raising pure 

 lineaged stud horses, of superior qualifications. The pursuits of 

 the turf unite the stimuli of sporting emulation; prizes, high 

 prices for young thorough-bred stock, and, last and not least, a 

 patriotic desire on the part of many liberal minded gentlemen, to 

 further through its means the welfare of agriculture, and to lay 

 the foundation of a national bi-eed of horses, eminent for qualities 

 the most valuable. 



No country in the world can surpass this, in means and facili- 

 ties fcr raising the very finest horsts. Every variety of soil and 

 climate abounds, whether for laising the heavier draft horse, or 

 the fleet courser, and the latter in an especial degree. Enough 

 of the dryness and purity of atmosphere, which has mainly con- 

 ferred on the desert Arab his fine form, compacted tissues, spet-d, 

 and unrivalled hardihood, is everywhere to be found. The scanty 

 pastures of the desert limit the Arab's size; while here, there is 

 no such^ drawback, but quite the contrary. The main elements 

 wanting towards the raising, much more generally, of finehorse^, 

 is, first, an adequate importation of the right kind of thorough- 

 bred stud-horses 5 and, second, a national stud book, through 

 which to register and trace native; raised thorough-bred stock. 

 Towards this, it is necessary that there be circulated among far- 

 mers and breeders, some better information on the principles and 

 profits of raising superior horses, and those analogous laws of 

 structure and form, and health and vigor— the significance of 

 some fixed standard and rules — and this would be followed by 

 advantages of no ordinary magnitude. 



An association for importing thorough bred stud horses, and 

 founding a State stud, for the sale and also annual hire of the 

 same, to districts, would confer high public advantages, and 

 would be a most remunerative undertaking. In connection with 

 systematized arrangements for founding such an incorporated 



