The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . cement of the present cen-tury, that what njay be called race-courses proper were estab-lished in New York; the first club for the promotion of the breedof horses by means of racing dating from 1804; although longpreviously the improvement of the breed of horses had createdmuch interest in that State, celebrated stock-getters havingbeen imported as early as IT64 and 1765, Into Pennsylvania, a State which has
The horse and his diseases : embracing his history and varieties, breeding and management and vices; with the diseases to which he is subject, and the remedies best adapted to their cure . cement of the present cen-tury, that what njay be called race-courses proper were estab-lished in New York; the first club for the promotion of the breedof horses by means of racing dating from 1804; although longpreviously the improvement of the breed of horses had createdmuch interest in that State, celebrated stock-getters havingbeen imported as early as IT64 and 1765, Into Pennsylvania, a State which has never particularly dis- THE AMERICAN BLOOD-HORSE. 43 tinguished itself in the racing turf, were brought at an early-date two horses, Graj Northumberland (also called Irish Gray),and Old England ; to these must be given the credit of runningone of the oldest great American time-races on record, as longago as 1767, against two other horses, Selim and Granby. Although the use of the horse for merely racing purposes does not at present obtain to as great an extent with ns as in England—a circumstance which can be readily accounted for _d^^mM^. from the prejudice which many entertain. BLACK HAWK—AN AMERICAN RACER, against such a use, owing to the objectionable accompanimentswhich are too often found in connection with it—still it shouldnot be forgotten, that the advantage to be derived from thethorough-bred horse depends upon far more than his applica-bility to the turf and his fitness for racing purposes. VYere itotherwise, it would scarcely be worth while to devote the space 44 THE AMERICAN BLOOD-HORSE. to the consideration of this topic which has, by common con-sent, been deemed indispensable. The truth is, that the race-course was not, in the beginning,so much as thought of as a bcene for the dispLay of the highqualities of this animal; much less was racing considered byour ancestors as an end for which they imported the Easternhorse into Europe. It was for the improvemen
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