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cular ; and tail set high. In harness he 

 must bend, or in other words, wear himself 

 gaily, and be full of fire and animation ; he 

 must move with true, direct, and pliable 

 shoulder and knee-action in front, and with 

 freedom behind. 



HORSES CAN BE BRED FOR ALL PURPOSES. 



It is well known among breeders, not only 

 of the horse but of any animal, that con- 

 tinued endeavour to develop and perpetuate 

 one particular quality, while it results in 

 greater perfection of that sought charac- 

 teristic, is always accompanied by manifest 

 deterioration in other attributes. 



Take the thoroughbred race-horse, for 

 example : during the past 80 years he has 

 been bred purely for racing. This was not 

 always so. In the old Sporting Magazine of 

 1 82 1 we find reproduced from the painting 

 by George Stubbs, R.A., a portrait of Mam- 

 brino (who was got by Engineer, by Samp 

 son by Blaze by Flying Childers), and an 

 account of him from which the following- 

 extracts are taken : 



" Mambrino belonged to a peculiar class or variety 

 of the English race-horse .... he was master 

 of the highest weights over the road or field, and was 

 never beaten on the turf till the edge of his speed was 



