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ties which are not primarily essential to a 

 successful turf career have to a very great 

 extent disappeared. 



TO BREED HORSES ACCORDING TO REQUIRE- 

 MENTS OF MAN. 



It goes without saying that horses can 

 be bred as required to fulfil the wishes and 

 requirements of man. In this country the 

 blood of the thoroughbred has been sought 

 and used as though swift movement at the 

 gallop on the turf and that alone were the 

 only essentials ; in America the descendants 

 of Messenger and the Norfolk-bred Jary's 

 Bellfounder have been carefully cultivated to 

 ensure the highest speed on the trotting 

 track, other qualifications being ignored as 

 completely as in England for the develop- 

 ment of the one remunerative quality. No- 

 thing else is to be expected : the great value 

 of the stakes offered for racing and trotting 

 naturally compels studious endeavour to 

 breed only such horses as shall be likely 

 to win money. 



The thoroughbred sire is the only animal 

 from which to breed race-horses ; his in- 

 herent galloping action and speed are so 

 implanted in him by in-breeding during 



