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with half to three-parts bred mares, whilst the 

 produce would stand free of all leg defects, and would 

 be far more valuable and far more suitable for either 

 charger, hunter, or hack, than by keeping to the 

 present system, which too often brings forth the faults 

 of both. To have a perfect, and perfectly handsome 

 horse, it must no doubt be quite thorough-bred, though 

 there is not one thorough-bred in a hundred that 

 is perfectly handsome, yet if not quite thorough-bred 

 there is sure to be visible some httle want of superfine 

 form or appearance, either in the forehead, or jowl, or 

 lips, or nostrils, or ears, or eyes, or in the quarter, or 

 in the skin, or elsewhere, that will always denote a 

 falling short of perfectly handsome purity. 



Three-parts to seven-eighths bred, out of two 

 clean, strong, straight, uninjured legged parents, is 

 what ninety out of every hundred horsemen want, and 

 this they might get. This they evidently have not. 

 The farmers, however, having gone on their own 

 erroneous principle, the dealers are unluckily often 

 left with only Hobson's choice ; and they, not for 

 once, like myself, but annually neglectful of the acute 

 axiom in the before adverted to poetical distich, have 

 the mortification to find that many of their purchases 

 will not even stand the breaking-in before the slant- 

 aside leg or other defect breaks out ; hence they have 



