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set him, and losing the match, though he 

 could hardly be said to have been " pounded." 

 With regard to any beneficial effect which 

 the sport of steeple-chasing may have had 

 upon horse-breeding, it is precisely the same 

 (neither more nor less), as that exerted 

 by flat-racing. The great mistake was ever 

 to have assimilated the two branches of 

 the sport. As at first conducted, chasing 

 did undoubtedly encourage the breed of 

 weight-carrying hunters, since only such, 

 when thoroughbred or nearly so, could get 

 over a big natural country at the pace 

 required. Such horses as Vivian, Grimaldi, 

 Gaylad, Lottery, Peter Simijle, Rat-trap, 

 and Chandler, full-sized yet not leggy, 

 strong without being clumsy, high-couraged 

 yet temperate, and capable, several of them, 

 of carrying sixteen stone to hounds, were 

 just the class of animal for which there 

 is now so great a demand. These few 

 notable horses for same years carried all 



