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occasioned much debate and surprise. He could not transmit 

 inherent qualities derived from pure blood, because these were 

 unpossessed by him, although transmitted to himself by his sire, 

 in his individual generation. Horses not quite thorough bred, 

 may have fine form, and race, or be very fast. The Rocket 

 Gelding, not thorough bred, was the fastest mile horse ever seen 

 at Newmarket. But it is in the stud that purity of blood tells ; 

 and a flaw will act unfavorably for a generation or two, until 

 crossed out by undoubted and pure strains. The inheritance and 

 transmissible qualities of blood, belong inscrutably to lineage, 

 with horses. 



