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their best mares to the most fashionable horses, 

 trusting entirely to high-class blood on both sides 

 to produce a racehorse. 



" The breeder, further to ensure size as likely 

 to command a price, selects the big horse of the 

 neighbourhood advertised, as I have often observed, 

 •standing nearly i6 hands 2 inches, with sub- 

 stance,' not knowing, or overlooking the fact, 

 that the more size the more liability to all natural 

 blemish. 



"In the district little horses have always done 

 the best. Oberon, barely j 15. i hands, 'avl6. Agricola 

 were such, and old President and Perion were the 

 same stamp; Cain was also a beautiful horse, standing" 

 15.2 hands, with a thoroughly Arab head, which 

 he put upon his stock, even from the commonest 

 cart-mares. 



" I would advise the tenant farmer to mate 

 his mare with a stallion standing not more than 

 15.2 hands, possessing short back, rather arched loins 

 with length underneath, good bone, short fore-legs 

 set well in front and on the outside of him, long 

 sloping shoulders, deep middle, not too short a neck, 

 with blood-like head." 



The thoroughbred and the draught races are 

 both peculiarly special to this country, having been 

 built up by ourselves and our ancestors extending 

 back hundreds of years, at a cost which the people 

 of no other nation could realize. 



Every Englishman loving a horse has not 



