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Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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to the factthat it is an exceptional circumstance for a modern race-horse to be trainedfor a long race. The shorter events are still so decidedly in the majoritythat there is very little inducement for an owner to try and find outwhether his horse can stay over a long distance; and therefore, doubt-less owing to there being no encouragement to test his merits, manyan animal possessed of stamina is regarded as being quite a second-rater,though if he had been given a proper chance for distinguishing himselfhe might have won almost undying fame. It certainly is to be hoped that this is the case, for, as the Thorough-bred is largely utilized as a cross for other varieties of horse, and notablyin the production of the Hunter, it is evident that the services of a sirethat is not only bred to stay, but can stay, are more valuable than thoseof animals which could not have got beyond six furlongs in their racingdays. On the other hand, there are good and solid grounds for believing PLATE XIV.
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u < Q- Q Qi< ulina:O O ENGLISH BREEDS 109 that the by no means uncommon, but on the other hand very generalpractice of bringing up Thoroughbreds as though they were as delicateas hothouse plants, cannot but have the effect of reducing the robustnessof their constitution; whilst the insane craze that exists for the bloodof fashionable sires can only end in such close inbreeding that beforeanother century, or even half a one, has elapsed, it is extremely likelythat breeders will tind themselves at their wits end for a cross. Thisis a real danger which will have to l)e faced sooner or later, but it is onewhich the horse raisers of fifty years ago most probably never contemplated.In the first place, a much stronger rivalry then existed between thestables in different parts of the country, and esprit de corps rather forbadethe racing public Hocking in the direction of one or two favoured sires;whilst in the second place, in the early days of railways, and liefore theirintroduction, t

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