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of these may be produced in a remote 

 descendant — which or what of them the 

 latest representative will, as our country 

 folks say, most favour. This, as we have 

 suggested, is especially the case with the 

 modern hackney, because of the greater 

 variety of, so to speak, his constituent 

 parts. In any individual specimen may 

 predominate the points of his great-great- 

 great-grandsire, an immediate descendant 

 of some famous old English entire pack- 

 horse, or of his great-great-granddam, a 

 simple cart mare of the period ; or again 

 he may show most of the somewhat thick 

 forehand and lofty action of the Norfolk 

 trotter, or in a bad nick a coarse head and 

 upright loaded shoulder combined with the 

 slender bone and calf-knees of some weedy 

 thoroughbred. The Stud Book will in time 

 correct this tendency, and the hackney will 

 presently breed more true to type. Then 

 he will have more admirers than he 



