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occurs in individuals , causing the power I have before de- 
scribed. It is more prevalent in wild than tame animals, and 
the racer, as a tame animal, may in some individuals have 
less density, that is, are coarse horses. The Honorable 
Captain Rous’s statistics state, of 830, there are 480 not 
racers. This by no means implies the latter are useless for 
other purposes, but being unfit for racers are better fitted 
for other uses. “ Weed,” as applied to horses, is therefore 
only a relative term. 
Then, again, as to weakness* from breeding in and in, 
strictly speaking this means breeding among the offspring 
of one sire and dam. The English thorough- bred horse did 
not originate in this manner. Besides, Turkish and Arabian 
horses have been since imported ; and though “ the blood of 
the Godolphin Arabian is in most stables,” this is not breed- 
ing in and in, any more than would be the importation of 
Arabs, as proposed, with the expectation of getting, by the 
same procedure, horses for the army. Arabs are not, in home 
studs, free from the supposed (for it is supposition only) 
defects of English thorough-bred horses. 
The breeders of army horses I suspect never read Mr. 
Percivall’s c Lectures on Horses, their Form and Action/ or 
Cecil’s 6 Hints on Breeding Horses.’ Veterinary surgeons 
do so, and can give advice to farmers in their respective 
neighbourhoods not to choose leggy, narrow 7 - chested, narrow- 
loined stallions, but just the contrary, if they want to breed 
army horses ; and if it be found to be remunerative, they will 
do so, not unless. It appears that £26 os. is not so at 
present, therefore more has to be paid ; and it is better to 
encourage our own breeders of horses than to let the breeds 
so far deteriorate, because there are now T no other sources of 
demand for varieties of horses from which the different kinds 
of army horses can be selected, and to be ultimately obliged 
to purchase abroad, which has already begun. According to 
free trade, some may think this not injurious — I am of 
different opinion. I have witnessed the heavyf financial 
* An act was passed in the 13th of George II, for suppressing faces by 
ponies and other small and weak horses, and contains several regulations 
respecting horse racing. The writer of this pamphlet has only to prove 
that racers of the present day are weak , incapable of continuance from want 
of bottom, and this act can be put in force. Try if they can do the Long 
and Round Course in the same time as “ Childers not those stale upon 
their legs. 
t Captain Blacker, of the Madras Cavalry, informed me the horses pur- 
chased by him in Persia for the Madras Horse Artillery, far exceeded the 
amount allowed. 
Whatever the cost of horses formerly in New South Wales, I was told 
