HORSE BREEDING IN FRANCE. 
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If you refer to the English stud books, the English thorough¬ 
bred horse is also a Moorjenniss. There cannot, therefore, be any 
difference which horse is used as a stallion, as far as regards caste. 
As to being “ artificially bred and trained for racing,” so far from 
rendering the English thorough-bred horse “ of too delicate a nature 
to be useful* for military purposes,” the Academy of Sciences must 
acknowledge that this position of M. Richard’s is physiologically 
untrue. It is equally impossible that a high caste horse can dete¬ 
riorate the French breed, of no breeding at all, as the produce 
would, of necessity, be of higher caste ; and I shall prove that 
high caste t horses have by all nations been preferred for military 
* We have a recent instance where the mixture of the English race-horse 
with other breeds were under their riders fifteen hours in pursuit of the Sikhs; 
a sort of delicacy that would just suit the stomachs of French dragoons; in 
short, if they had it, the crown of Charlemagne might not be going a 
begging. 
f This is only comparative. France does not require the military system 
of horse breeding for predatory warfare. 
“ Cozak Tartar. —No horse exceeds him in labour and perseverance under 
fatigue. 
“ Mahratta Tazee implies no separate or peculiar breed, but leads to the 
opinion of a good horse, from a capacity to endure and even thrive under the 
most unexampled hardships and uncommon exertions.” The Pony. —“ The 
Gowt or Hill Toorkys are not to be surpassed by any in labour and hardiness. 
They preserve spirit under fatigue or endurance of scanty provisions. The 
Tanghean, equally well known, under the most arduous labours.” “ Tattoo 
Pony. —The general and most laborious uses to which these are applied 
evince their utility, insomuch that through the most arduous campaigns in 
India, the necessaries of the soldiers, followers, and even their families, are 
conveyed principally by their means: the patient endurance with which they 
perform their tasks, through almost incredible hardships and under very 
heavy burdens, excite in the beholders no less admiration than compassion; 
in return, they receive usually but liberty to pick a scanty subsistence on an 
almost barren plain : yet they rarely fail in these exactions; and while with 
assiduity a horse of a high price and estimation can with difficulty be sup¬ 
ported through the fatigues of a campaign, the Tattoo thrives under a 
scarcity approaching to famine.”— Pigott. 
“ Irakee. —The Toorkey of Babylonian and Persian Irak is produced 
from a Toorkoman engrafted on a Persian; the favourite of native princes 
and men of power in India. By the symmetry and gracefulness of his form, 
docility of temper, and justness of action, he produces in his natural move¬ 
ments an effect surpassing what the labour of art can exhibit in horses of an 
inferior breed; but when skilfully managed, the grandeur and stateliness of 
his carriage equal what the warmest imagination can conceive of that animal: 
his spirits rising as his exertions are required, he exhibits to his beholders an 
appearance of fury in the performance of his task, yet preserving to his rider 
the utmost flexibility of temper.” 
“ Iranee. —The Iran Toorkey, a horse bred in Persia, inferior to the Irakee. 
The Candahar Toorkey, bred to Candahar, is inferior to the Iranee.” 
Cozakee , a horse bred in Usbek Tartary, bearing a great resemblance to 
the Toorkoman, and is often received as of that caste. 
