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sands of Arabia only, there appears no reason why his foot should 

 have been made able to endure the concussion of a hard surface ; 

 and in some of his varieties, though the liorn of it is generally ex- 

 cessively hard, the internal foot possesses extreme sensibility. He 

 does not appear, under favorable circumstances, upon being trans- 

 ])oited to the climate of the cart-horse, to experience any diminu- 

 tion of his superiority to him, through any number of generations ; 

 though he is useless as he approaches that of the Arabian. 



His most valuable variety, and that with which we are best ac- 

 quainted, is the English thorough-bred horse ; by which term is in- 

 tended a horse, all of whose blood is to be traced to acknowledged 

 racers, or to a very few celebrated individual horses, supposed to 

 have been chiefly of Arabian blood, whose stock has in general 

 proved so m England. Some of the pedigrees of this Anglo-Ara- 

 bian have been regularly kept from the reign of James 1. ; but a 

 very large part of him is derived from two individuals ; one car- 

 ried there about ninety years since, whose previous history is ut- 

 terly unknown ; the other, about one hundred and thirty years 

 since, who was brought from the Desert of Palmyra. The blood 

 of these two horses runs in the veins of the multitude of thorough- 

 bred horses annually foaled in England, on the Continent, and in 

 the United States ; and, exce])ting the genuine cart-horse, there is 

 scarcely a horse in England or the States entirely free from it. 



The peculiar advantages and disadvantages of the thorough-bred 

 horse, who is most corruptly called in Virginia, the blooded horse, 

 for blood horse, are exceedingly necessary to be known to every 

 breeder ; as, though he is not so well adapted himself to any pur- 

 pose but horse-racing, as a horse bred between him and one not 

 thorough-bred, he is proved by the experience of a century in 

 England, to be the only foundation of any reasonable expectation 

 of breeding superior horse-flesh ; allowed to be, and sought after 

 from that cause by the Russians, the Germans and the French, 

 who are all becoming great horse-breeders, and in most parts of 

 the States, excepting in New-England. As a proof of this last tact, 

 I can mention, that Henry earned between two and three thousand 

 dollars to his owners, in the vicinity of the city of JNew-York, the 

 last summer, as a breeder ; and that he will probably this summer, 

 earn much more. 



He (the thorough-bred horse) is subject to infinite variety ; but 

 he is generally accompanied by the following peculiarities : In 

 wind, in muscular power, and particularly in being able to perform 

 feats, he far surpasses any other horse ; even the Arabian in his 

 unimproved state. A case in point has occurred in which two 

 Cossack horses, picked from their immense studs, were beaten in 

 a 30 mile race, over a hard road near St. Petersburg, by a broken 

 down English race-horss, and he also heats the best horses that 

 can be bought in Arabia, in their own climate at Calcutta. All 

 his work is performed in much less time, when the pace appears to 

 the eye to be the same ; he can be used at an early age — he pos- 

 sesses greater longevity — he suffers less from the heat, than a low- 



