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twistings involved in his ten minutes' liigh- 

 pressiire play. Nor must he be put to other 

 kinds of work until of the proper age, lest 

 he should lose that dash and verve which 

 are essential to the game. The polo pony 

 is, therefore, pretty sure to be a long time 

 in the breeder's hands, and so must always 

 bring in a high price to prove remunerative. 



The two animals which at present make 

 the quickest return for early feeding are 

 the throughbred and the cart horse, but of 

 the former scarcely five out of every hundred 

 foaled are good enough to win races, and 

 nothing is so unsaleable as a thoroughbred 

 which is not ; while it seems quiite an open 

 question whether the latter, flourishing as 

 he is at the present moment, will or will 

 not be, in the course of a few years, almost 

 or entirely superseded by mechanical traction. 



Abundant exercise is of the utmost im- 

 portance to the foal, as to all young animals, 

 while the more hardily he is brought up. 



