500 THE PROGRESS OF TIIK TURF IN FRANCE. 
We add, as connected with this subject, some observations on 
“The Influence of the Introduction of Races on 
the Continental Horses. ” 
By Baron de Maltzahor Cammeron. 
[Translated from the German Periodical, Hippologische Blatter.'] 
Many years having passed since the introduction of races on 
the continent, the examination and the resolution of this question 
must be more useful and interesting than that of a thing of 
yesterday. There are some persons who object to the establish- 
ment of these races, and deny the good qualities, and the ame- 
liorating faculty, of the horse of pure blood, to which we are 
indebted for their value. Words and writings are now of little 
value, if they are not accompanied by facts and proofs ; and I 
demand of the opponents of the English horses of pure blood, 
to shew us, or to mention one good horse, which has not some 
of that blood in his veins. If they think that they possess such 
a horse, we are ready to oppose to him horses bred by our- 
selves, either on the course, or in the chase, or in any contest, 
for any distance, and with any weight. 
In the solution of this question is involved not only a few 
thousand crowns that may be gained or lost at Paris, but the 
determination of a most important point, — whether he is blinded 
by prejudice and party spirit, who introduces into his stud one 
breed, the proofs of whose superiority are every day before us, 
or another, whose incomparable excellence exists only in the 
phantasies of his own imagination, or the vague and fabulous 
traditions of the East. The beau ideal of which these gentlemen 
dream is, happily, only a chimera ; I say happily , for I am 
assured that, by pursuing the means recommended by them, and 
adopting all their unfounded notions, we should obtain horses 
that would be truly execrable. 
Some persons pretend that the English horse is much deterio- 
rated from what it was forty years ago. This assertion is not 
true ; for every one knows that the half-bred horses are far bet- 
ter than they used to be ; that the hunter is fleeter, and 
that the public carriages of every description travel twice as 
