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ity to carry heavy weights; and by judiciously crossing on the pres-
ent stock, their wishes will be crowned with certain success. No
pedigree of the " blood horse," of the present day, is accounted good,
unless it has some of the foregoing crosses in some of its remote
branches.
  Old Medley has done much towards the improvement of the
American Race Horse, also Bedford, Citizen, Clockfast, Dare Devil,
Diomed, Dion, Dove, Figure, Gabriel,Messenger, Sharke, Sir Harry,
Spread Eagle, and Moreton's Traveller. We agree decidedly with
the author of the Annals of the Turf, that "n pure blood is good, but
form is superiority a"  We deem it entirely unnecessary, at this time,
to enter into an ebaborate disquisition, or into the minute of breed-
ing race horses; unless we were to lay before our readers the math-
ematical proportions of their different external parts, which consti-
tute the frame, or the anatomical, or physiological, which compose
the inner; we will wave the subject at present, not properly belong-
ing to a book of this kind, and intended only to develope the full
traced pedigrees of blood horses, with as much accuracy as it could
be obtained at this remote period of time.