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not one foal escaped the direful effects of his imperfect vision. 
The next case is that of a mare, subject to farcial enlargements or 
swellings; and, not being capable of much work, she was put to 
the horse to breed a foal. It came ; and soon after birth evinced 
symptoms of farcy, dying, before it was two months old, of 
glanders. Another case is that of a gentleman having a favourite 
mare, but dreadfully lame from the navicular disease. He bred 
from her a filly that obtained a prize at an agricultural meeting as 
a yearling, and was then a jmungster of much promise. She was, 
however, occasionally lame before she was shod, and at five years 
old could scarcely go at all, although every care had been taken of 
her, and she was sold for a few pounds. The mare was a jibber 
in single harness, and her progeny, when tried, uniformly exhi- 
bited the same propensity. Among others, he mentions the case 
of a mare that broke her leg whilst running on Epsom Downs, 
when, although the fracture was reduced, the leg was afterwards 
crooked. She bore a filly-foal, which had a deformed leg on the 
same side as the mare, and with precisely the same curved inclina- 
tion. 
I remember, several years ago, breeding from a favourite mare, 
a remarkably fast trotter, that was subject to sandcracks. She had 
two foals, both by Lord Fitzwilliam’s Camelopard, whose stock, so 
far as I am acquainted with it, was remarkably sound ; but both 
foals were lame in their fore-feet the moment they were mounted 
and put into work. I have already stated an instance of a mare with 
a broken leg producing a foal with the same leg defective ; and I 
know a similar instance in Sheffield at this moment, of a thorough 
bred mare, belonging to a friend of mine, that came out of a mare 
with a broken fore-leg, and has a bent leg herself. She is sound, 
and an excellent mare, but objectionable from the cause I have 
stated. I remember, a short time ago, a friend of mine, in the 
Occupation-road, driving a young bay mare, that soon exhibited 
farcial symptoms, of which she grew rapidly worse, and died. 
In conversation with her owner, he told me that every means had 
been tried to check it, but that he thought it would be of no use, 
as her mother had died of the same complaint ! 
I could multiply these instances ad infinitum , but enough has 
been said to prove the tendency in like to produce like. And do 
we not all of us recognise this principle in breeding] We breed 
from fast trotters, hoping to get fast trotters, — from fine stallions, 
hoping to have fine foals, and so on ; and why not remember, that 
if we breed from bad eyes, diseased feet, curby or spavined hocks, 
ring-bones, bad tempers, or false hearts, — why not expect to have 
these defects handed down to posterity ] There has lately died in 
this neighbourhood, at an old age, a stallion that has been remark- 
