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noted French authority/ " it is especially one which consists 

 in observing, comparing and judging according to positive 

 information. Besides, it is necessary, in order to reach 

 perfection, to have observed much, to have put to practice 

 that faculty which makes the clinician, the connoisseur, and 

 the artist. It is when such an education is carried to a 

 considerable extent that we succeed in seizing at once what 

 good or defective qualifications the horse possesses, and 

 that it is possible to form a just conclusion by appreciat- 

 ing to what degree the good qualities exceed the bad." 



*The Exterior of the Horse. Goubaux & Barriere, 1904, p. 3. 



