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market, nor merely as respects the safe-keeping in which our 
valued brood mares would then he, but — as Mr. Goodwin has 
observed — -in respect to our knowledge of breeding — knowledge 
in which, as he has with truth alleged, we stand very much 
below the continental horse people. Doubtless, many valuable 
facts pertaining to the subject, and curious facts too, lie scattered 
about in our own country, some in possession of one, some of another 
breeder ; but where is the record of them — the repertory in which 
they are to be found when required 1 and who will answer that 
they are, traditionally handed down from father to son as they 
now appear to be, of that sterling value they might be made to be 
to us, stood they fairly upon public record 1 For these reasons — 
for the last one especially — we are, with Mr. Goodwin, strong ad- 
vocates for reform in our breeding establishments ; and w'e should 
hope the day is not far from us when we may look for some im- 
provement of the kind. Mr. Goodwin has promised us “ a sketch” 
of a plan for a National or Company Breeding Establishment ; and, 
looking to the experience of that gentleman in the Royal breeding 
stud, from time to time in keeping at Hampton Court, and to his 
extended observations among the private breeding farms of the 
north, we can entertain no doubt that his plan, whatever it may 
be, will have for its basement practicability and efficiency. 
The startling fact of the blood or seed of one sire or father 
shewing itself in the get of a subsequent sire, even though that 
sire be of another species, as reverted to by Mr. Goodwin, will be 
found authenticated by the letter addressed by the Earl of Morton 
to the President of the Royal Society, extracted from the society’s 
“ Transactions” into our Number for the present month. The phe- 
nomenon, thus put out of the reach of doubt, has received pretty 
ample confirmation since ; and as it is one of those facts which 
seem to have had less attention than it is deserving of paid to it 
by obstretric writers, it shall, at another time, be our affair to look 
a little into it. 
