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Lastly \naccepting the truism that ‘like 
begets like” it should not be forgotten 
that the adage applies to animals and 
birds in their natural wild state 
Those who wish to breed from 
Nature’s type must bend _ their 
thoughts to the horse’s habits in a 
state of nature, because it has been 
proved that mere size without con- 
stitution is useless on a racecourse 
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