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kinds of horses, and different kinds of masters, 

 farmers, dealers, country and town gentry, &c. men 

 for whose especial benefit the owners of race horses 

 say they run their thorough-bred stock, and not only 

 say, but actually compel them to believe it. The farmer 

 breeders are treated first, but they often make their 

 selection quite regardless of legs and feet, for as they 

 keep the produce unbroken and unshod, until two, 

 three or four years old, the hereditary defects may not 

 obtrude until they are well out of their hands. The 

 misfortune both for themselves and the pubhc is, they 

 still cling to the hope that all the handsome points 

 there may be in the thorough-bred sire will be repro- 

 duced with the good legs and feet of their own dams, 

 and that all the bad qualities of each will be lost. 

 Common observation alone might teach how numerous 

 the chances are against them. If farmer breeders and 

 horsemen would all join together in collective wisdom 

 and determination, a far superior horse to what we 

 now get might soon be produced, and that quite 

 independent of any thorough-bred parents. Take a 

 three-parts to seven-eighths bred unblemished sire, 

 with about the same quantity of breeding in an 

 equally unblemished dam. Through this process the 

 same quantity of good breeding would be obtained as 

 by mixing thorough-bred blemished legged winners 



