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the Norman, the Oleveland Bay, the Conestoga, the Virginia 
Horse, the Clydesdale, and the Wild or Prairie Horse. 
1. The Race-Horse.—‘ There is much dispute,” Mr. Youatt 
says, “with regard to the origin of the Thorough-bred Horse. 
By some he is traced through both sire and dam to Eastern pa- 
rentage; others believe him to be the native horse, improved 
and perfected by judicious crossings with the Barb, the Turk, 
or the Arabian. The Steed Book, which is an authority with 
every English breeder, traces all the old racers to some Eastern 
origin; or it traces them until the pedigree is lost in the 
uncertainty of an early period of breeding. 
“Whatever may be the truth as to the origin of the race- 
horse, the strictest attention has for the last fifty years been 
paid to pedigree. In the descent of almost every modern racer 
not the slightest flaw can be discovered.” 
The racer is generally distinguished, according to the same 
authority, by his beautiful Arabian head; his fine and finely- 
set neck; his oblique, lengthened shoulders; his well-bent 
hinder legs; his ample muscular quarters ; his flat legs, rather 
short from the knee downward, although not always so deep 
as they should be; and his long and elastic pastern. 
The use of thorough-bred and half-bred horses for domes- 
tic purposes is becoming common in England. The half-bred 
horse is not only much handsomer than the common horse, but 
his speed and power of endurance are infinitely greater. 
“The acknowledged superiority of Northern carriage and 
draught stock,” the editor of the New York Spirit of the Times 
says, “tis owing almost entirely to the fact that thorough-bred 
horses have found their way North and East from Long Island 
and New Jersey, where great numbers are annually disposed of 
that are unsuited to the course.” 
For the farm, the pure thorough-bred horse would be nearly 
useless. Helacks weight and substance to give value and power 
for draught. For road work the same objections will apply, 
although not to the same extent, perhaps. The best English 
road horse is a cross of the thorough-bred and the Cleveland. _ 
