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Title: A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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been erroneously selected asthe pattern of a superior Arabian, and therefore we have introducedhim; few, however, of his produce were trained who can add much tohis reputation. It has been imagined that the breed of racing horses has lately veryconsiderably degenerated. This is not the case. Thorough-bred horseswere formerly fewer in number and their performances created greater G 74 FAMILY HUNTER. GALLOWAYS AND PONIES. wbnder. The breed has now increased twenty fold, and superiority isnot so easily obtained among so many competitors. If one circumstancecould more than any other, produce this degeneracy, it would be theabsurd and cruel habit of bringing out horses too soon, and the frequentfailure of their legs before they have come to their full power. Child-ers and Eclipse did not appear until they were five years old ; but ma-ny of our best horses and those, perhaps, who would have shown equalexcellence with the most celebrated racers, are foundered and destroyedbefore that period.
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THE HUNTER. The Hunter, is derived from horses of entire blood, or such as arcbut little removed from it, uniting with mares of substance, correctform, and good action. In some instances hunters are derived fromlarge mares of the pure breed propagating with powerful stallions ofthe old English road horse. This favorite and valuable breed is a happycombination of the speed of the Arabian, with the durability of the na-tive horse. More extended in form, but framed on the same principles,he is able to carry a considerable weight through heavy grounds with aswiftness equalled only by the animal he pursues, and with a persever-ance astonishing to the natives of every other country. Hence the ex-treme demand for this breed of horses in every European country, theEnglish racing stallions being now sent to propagate in the easternclimes, from whence some of them were originally brought. Galloways and Ponies. A horse between thirteen and fourteenhands in height is called a Galloway, from a bea

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