This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...not only with performances of a high order, but also that our cavalry horses may answer certain conditions and forms about make and shape laid down in order to prevent their deterioration. The term of so-called faultlessness, however, is not to be taken in so strict a sense, when used in conjunction with the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...not only with performances of a high order, but also that our cavalry horses may answer certain conditions and forms about make and shape laid down in order to prevent their deterioration. The term of so-called faultlessness, however, is not to be taken in so strict a sense, when used in conjunction with the tried thoroughbred, as when applied to the untried half-bred. In the former, every deviation from the true shape is rendered more distinct by the exertions inseparable from the training ground and the racecourse, and, by the tension or straining of the sinews, muscles and tendons, even develops into a visible defect. In the half-bred stallion the disposition to the same imperfection slumbers perhaps still nearer the surface, and would scarcely allow him to pride himself on his cheaply acquired freedom from blemish, if he were ever compelled to leave his dolce far niente and undergo severe trials. My opinion as to the relative value of true shape and performances in the choice of a stallion to breed from, that is, what percentage of the one might be sacrificed to the other, may, not inaptly, I believe, in figures be thus expressed: I require the sire, intended for the production of thoroughbreds, for every per cent, less performance three per cent, more exterior--the form, however, should never be less than good second class; for that of half-breds I reverse the proportion, and give for every per cent, exterior three per cent, performance. To breed racehorses from a stallion who himself did not belong to the first or second class on the turf is imprudent, for the instances of an inferior stallion producing a superior racehorse are of such very rare occurrence--this used to be tried, not without success, most frequently in France, but has...
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