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 required to possess a degree of speed sufficient for 

 the uses to which he is destined, but with this he 

 should be possessed of endurance and of the strength 

 required for carrying the weight of his rider over an 

 unequal surface. 



"The tendency to the ewe neck, which in the 

 short and violent gallop of the racecourse is admiss- 

 able, would, in the case of the hunter, be inconsistent 

 with sensitiveness to the rein and the ease of the 

 rider. The neck of the hunter should be sufficiently 

 muscular, and his chest just so broad as to indicate 

 •strength without heaviness ; the long stride of the 

 racer not being required in the hunter, the latter 

 should possess the conformation which indicates 

 strength in the dorsal and lumbar regions — that is, 

 he should be well ribbed home and have the back 

 moderately short. 



"Although the change so widely produced in 

 the horses of this country, by aiming at a higher 

 standard, has doubtless given us animals more 

 spirited, active, and graceful, it has, at the same 

 time, had the effect of causing great numbers to be 

 reared defective in form, deficient in strength and 

 bone, and which have lost the hardy quality of the 

 older races without having arrived at the properties 

 which superior breeding should communicate. The 

 ■deterioration is generally admitted, and the causes 

 are deserving of consideration as indicating the 

 remedies." 



