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theless, many good caste horses are seen badly form- 

 ed, and many half or three parts bred, well formed. 

 High caste united to a running form, will never fail ; 

 and some horses, when led out, show such superior 

 blood, energy, and build, that if properly trained, 

 and nothing constitutionally wrong, they would be 

 sure to gallop : others showing externally only tolera- 

 ble good caste, but good make ; or good caste but in- 

 different make, may be called the doubtful ones : 

 while there is a third, a numerous class, which one 

 may with safety declare will never run, and many of 

 these are handsome notwithstanding. But an ugly 

 horse may have as much chance of running as a hand- 

 some one, provided the different essential running 

 parts of his frame harmonize ; that the joints are all 

 equally corresponding with the size, and that the 

 hind parts agree in relation to the fore parts, for 

 " ugliness, though the opposite of beauty, is not the 

 opposite of proportion and fitness,"* and so it is with 

 the horse. 



To distinguish high caste appears a very complex 

 affair at the imperial mart of the Bomb Proof : but, 

 produce me an Arab with a straight spine, and a 

 straight long quarter ; a muscular and handsome 

 dropped hind leg ; a round barrel, swelling well out 

 behind the elbows, with great depth of girth, and a 

 moderately broad but flat chest ; a very oblique and 

 deep shoulder ; a light neck ; a well set on lean head, 

 with a large brilliant eye, thin open nostril, deep 

 mouth, wide clear jowl, and small silky ear ; give 

 me this make, with the upper inner bone of the knees 

 and hocks large, and hinder bone of each also large, 



* Burke on the Sublime. 



