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order to obtain handsome Chargers, Hacks, and 

 Hunters, will help very materially to bring about so 

 much wished-for a result by abstaining to purchase 

 such refuse at any price, thus compelling your great 

 breeders at last to rear only from handsome sires and 

 dams possessing straight unblemished legs and good 

 open feet ; for while a horse without these defects may 

 be very cheap at a hundred or two hundred pounds, 

 yet with them he may be very dear at a hundred 

 or two hundred pence. 



But I am told that men exist who actually prefer 

 crooked legs and have no objection to fiddle heads, nor 

 to drooping quarters, with what they designate pendent 

 tails, which are too often so hugged that they forcibly 

 remind one of some culprit spaniel run after by 

 his master with a broomstick. There is no accounting 

 for tastes, but men who would praise horses of this 

 description would praise tough meat and give the 

 same to their friends. And men of these ideas will 

 generally be found to have some very ugly points 

 themselves, consequently to be no more adapted to 

 ornament Rotten Row than their horses. 



Thorough-breds are deteriorating so fast in 

 handsome appearance in England that very many of 

 the rising generation seem at a loss to comprehend 

 what a handsome well made blood horse should look 



