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before described, can readily inform himself of the properties 
attributed to them, an advantage not equally attending the 
choice of a Moojiniss, whose qualities will most probably be 
in proportion as he shall be near to the stem of his original 
progenitors. A horse many removes from them, being, 
equally with the immediate offspring of the Tazee and 
Toorkoman, denominated a Moojiniss; a peculiar difficulty, 
therefore, attends the selection from a class so variously 
partaking of the mixtures from which they may be 
sprung. Among this caste are to be found both light and 
heavy horses, according as they partake in conformation of 
the Tazee or Toorkoman ; and they are distinguished by the 
terms of the Tazee or Toorky Moojiniss. A Moojiniss, for 
instance, produced by a Tazee upon a Toorkoman mare will 
most probably resemble the dam more strongly in make than 
the sire, and vice versa. 
Well, then, the Herod blood originated in the Byerly Turk ; 
the Matchein blood in the Godolphin Arab, and the Eclipse 
blood in the Darley Arabian, all foreign horses, and if we 
refer to the dams, we find that English thorough-bred horses 
are what are called in Asia Moojiniss , a mixture of English, 
Turkish, and Arabian, and if any advantage to English# 
thorough-bred or other varieties of blood horses, can be 
derived by fresh importation of Asiatic blood, it would only 
be in the same manner in which it originated, by the re- 
union of both, and not by one only, as has been so often 
suggested, without due consideration of what is wanted, 
which has been supposed by some to be blood only, i.e. 
organization; by others form ; by both? Doubtless, English 
thorough bred horses inherited qualities from each of 
these distinct pure breeds, that could not now be obtained 
by the introduction of either separately, supposing even 
stallions of these breeds, of similar qualities, were procurable. 
The organization of Turkish and Arabian horses is different, 
as shown by the difference of temperament, shape, and make, 
the concomitant of it, in these distinct breeds when pure, 
and when these breeds are missed. Seeing that this is the 
result, it is not to be wondered at that turf men prefer in 
horses those qualities only that best answer their purpose, 
and make use of these accordingly ; therefore, I doubt if 
either the breed of thorough-bred or other blood horses could 
be equally well kept up in any other manner than it is at 
present, and least of all by any interference of the govern- 
ment with the present system of racing, as, notwithstanding, 
I am as equally averse to the abuse of young horses as others 
are, still I believe it to be the best, as the only true source of 
