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that we are astonished at the excellent performances of some 
mis-shapen horse, and equally surprised and disappointed at 
the inability of another, whose pretensions, according to the 
laws of beauty and proportion, are of the very first order.” 
We must look to material or texture, to organization, and 
to nervous influence, which these solutions seem compre- 
hended in the vulgar sense under the head of breed or race. 
For instance, when we say that a horse is required to be well 
bred, in order to combine speed and bottom with strength, 
we mean that the texture of their bodies should be of a finer 
and superior description to that of others, that their organi- 
zation should be correspondency better wrought ; and that 
their nervous or vital influence should be of a higher caste. 
These constitute the corporealj differences between the race 
horse and the cart horse ; between an animal of breeding and 
no breeding. It is a curious but well ascertained fact, that 
portions 4 taken from any corresponding bones in the bodies 
of these respective animals, are, with all their differences in 
magnitude, of nearly equivalent weights, proving that one 
contains as much material as the other ; the difference being, 
that in the one it is more densely and better wrought together, 
consequently better adapted to quick motion, while it still 
possesses unrivalled strength and resistance. So it is with 
muscle, so with every other structure. 
The organization of such an animal, the system whereby 
every part is furnished with nutriment, is of a corres- 
pondently more perfect description, and the nervous texture 
that which vitalizes every part, and infuses the spirit of 
exertion into it, is such as to endow it with more life and 
spirit or life and spirit of a super-excellent kind.” 
Now, are English thorough-bred horses deficient in this 
compared to Arabs ? All th q facts, both on the turf and in the 
chase, go to negative this, speed and bottom has often been 
tested, and the English thorough-bred horses have invariably 
proved superior in both to Arabians and Tartar horses. The 
former outstride the latter, though the bottom might be the 
same, for in this scientific elucidation of breed, it is the same, 
abstractedly considered, in thorough-bred English or high 
caste Turkish or Arab horses. The increased stride of the 
former is diminished by crosses with the latter. It is from 
Turkish and English horses size is derived, density of tissues, 
organization, from Arabians, such is the evidence on ex- 
amination. 
The Herod blood originated in the Byerly Turk, a foreign 
horse. Pigott’s introduction states, “ Toorkoman is doubtless 
intended to express a breed of horses totally distinct from any 
