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or brood mares are used with faulty build, or defective 

 legs and feet, so long will these evils be more or less 

 perpetuated, and will generally intrude themselves on 

 public notice before maturity is attained. 



One would have thought that by this time any 

 man with a good eye and with good taste could tell at 

 once whether a horse had blood enough without his 

 running, which test does not invariably prove the speed 

 either now a days ; and even if it did prove both, yet, 

 if there is any faultiness in the build to offend a good 

 eye, there is ugly blood whether thorough-bred or not ; 

 and such horses should not be used to produce either 

 Chargers, Park horses, or respectable riding Hacks ; 

 for when three and four-year-olds are found to have 

 the faaltiness of build of the parents, and some 

 defects from hereditary overwork in addition, they 

 ought not reasonably to bring a respectable price 

 because they are not fit for a respectable person to ride ; 

 but wdien, on the contrary, a horse has the points laid 

 down in Pages Sand 9 of " The Griffin's Aide-de-Camp," 

 and resembles the George the Third Statue, then he 

 has the proper style of blood for every purpose, 

 barring pulling waggons, and you may save yourself 

 the trouble of going to Timbuctoo or elsewhere to 

 search out the pedigree. In the frontispiece of that 

 book there is an ugly horse of bad form drawn with 



