New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-20

tDo oettIOIdHOn.
Now, as to what constitutes value or excellence
in all horses it s indisPutsbly quickness Of sork.
ing; power to move or carry weight and ability TO
endure for length Of time; to travel for drtance
with the least decrease of pace; to come again to
work, day after day, week after week, and year af
ter year, with undiminished vigor. And it 10
scarcely needful to cay that under all ordinary cir.
cumstances, these conditions are only cOnpstlble
with the highest form and highest physical health
Of the animal. Malformation pnst necessarily DO
tract fr ON speed or power; hereditary disease or
constitutional arrangement must necessarily detrscs
from all powers whatsoever. Under usual circuu-
stances it would be hardly necessary TO undertake
to show that quickness of working or in other
words, speed, is necessary condition to high de-
gree Of excellence in horse Of any stamp or style
and not one iota les for the animal which draws
the load or breaks the elebe, than for the riding
horse or the pleasure traveller before light vehicles
But it has Of late become the fashion with some
parties to undevslue the effects Of speed, and TO
deny its utility for other purposes than for those
Of mere amusement; and, as coroIlsry from this
assumption, to disparage the effect and deny the ad
vantage Of blood BY which is meant descent through
the American and English race horse, from the Or.
entail blood of the desert, whether Arabian, Barb,
Turk, Persian or Syrian, or as q combination Of
two, or more, or all of the fve To carry this dis
paragement stin further, it has been necessary to
the inventors and disseminstors Of it to invent an
other fact which is this: that blood horses have no
value but their speed, and are necessarily weak,
Gght-imbed and deficient in power; concerning
which word hereafter. Now one would hardly
think it necessary to show that if one horse drawing
load Of produce, merchandise, what you will, OF
such weight that he can only move it at walk, can
walk with that load at rate Of four miles in the
hour, with no greater expenditure Of power than
another horse makes in moving it 3. two miles-Of
the two hortes, working an equal number of hours
in the day, that which does the four miles will draw
one load double the distance or double the number
Of loads the same distance that the other will do,
walking at two miles, consequently, be wll earn
double the money per diem, aud, other things being
equal, will be worth double the value or price This
improvement is precisely that which has been ef-
fected in England in the new or improved London
draueht horse over the old Flanders drsy horse.
The facts are precisely the same in relation to
plow horse riding horse, or light carriage horse
The horse which can plow an acre while another
il blowing half an acre, U that which can carry
load Of passengers ten miles while another is going
FIVE, independent of all considerations Of amuse
ment TASTE or what is generally called fancy, Is ab
soutely worth twice much TO his owner as the
other. Now, the question for the breeder is sim.
ply this: by what means is this result to be OBJ
tainedi The reply is, by getting the greatest pos
sibe amount of pure blood compatible with size,
weight and power, according to the purpose for
which he intends to raise stock, into the animal
bred. For not only is it not true that speed alone
is the good thing derivsble from blood, but some
thing very nearly the reverse is true. It 10 very
nearly the least good thing. That which the blood
horse does possess is q degree Of strength in hs
bones, sinews aud frame at large, utterly out Of
proportion to the size or apparent strength Of that
frame. The texture, the form aud tho symmetry Of
the bones all, in the same bulk and volume, possess
double, or nearer four-fold the elements of resist
ance and endurance in the blood horse that they do
in the cold. blooded cart horse The difference in
the form and texture Of the sinews and muscles,
and in the inferior tendency to form Aabby useless
esh il still more in favor Of the blood horse. Be
yond this the internal anatomical construction Of
his respiratory organs, of hl arterial and venOus
system, of bis nervous system, in word, of hn
constitution generally, is calculated to give him,
what he possesses, greater vital power, greater 70
euperatory power, greater physical power, in pro-
portion to his bulk and weight, than any other
known animal-added to greater quickness Of move.
ment, arising from his superiority Of form and
mechanism, to the more perfect arrangement Of tho
leverage and Of the propulsive powers Of his bones
sinews and muscles, and to greater courage greater
endurance of labor, hardship, sufering-in word,
greater what is called vugarly game or pluck, than
Is to be found in any other Of the horse family.
In the greater or less proportion that blood e1'
lists in any Two animals Of otherwise equal appear
snce soundDes, strength and symmetry, precisely
in that degree may one predict that the qualities
named above will prevail and predominate. Bat it
Is not to be said or supposed that all blood horses
will give these qualities in An equal degree, for there
Il as much or more choice in the blood horse than
in any other Of the family. Since, in the blood
of the Thoroughbred horse, all faults, all vices al
diseases are directly hereditary, a. well ~ al vir-
tues, all soundnees, all good qualities it is moro no
sessary to look in the blood horse to his antece-
dents, his history, his performances, and, above all
his shape, temper sosndness and constitution, than
it is in any other of the horse family. To breed
from q small horse with the hope of getting large
colt; from long backed, leggy hOrse, with the hope
Of getting short, compact, powerful one; from
hyoh ON u;ndsd or blind ar hat- footed or epav.