The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . is one of the most importantcharacteristics of a horse. What I wish to empha-sise is that it is unfair to look for the quality ofone breed in another, or to compare the quality ofone breed of horses with another. When a com-parison is made between a couple of breeds as inthe instance quoted, and it is said that one breedshows more quality than another, the meaningreally is that it is lighter. It will be noticed thatin all cases where comparisons are made as tothe quality that different breeds are possessed of,it is always the lighter breed that
The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . is one of the most importantcharacteristics of a horse. What I wish to empha-sise is that it is unfair to look for the quality ofone breed in another, or to compare the quality ofone breed of horses with another. When a com-parison is made between a couple of breeds as inthe instance quoted, and it is said that one breedshows more quality than another, the meaningreally is that it is lighter. It will be noticed thatin all cases where comparisons are made as tothe quality that different breeds are possessed of,it is always the lighter breed that is said to havethe more quality. If the definition of qualitythat has been given is a correct one, or even if itis approximately a correct one, such a conclusionis on the face of it absurd. The value of qualityin a horse it is impossible to over-estimata, becauseit covers so many things. It is the opposite ofcoarseness which is always undesirable. And inthis connection is to be found support for thedefinition of quality which I have given. The. Our illustration above is of the Pony Mare Ferniehurst Fortuna, winner of the First Prize in the Class forPony Mares (barren) or Geldings, not over six years old and not exceeding 13 hands, at the Hackney HorseSocietys Show this year. Ferniehurst Fortuna is a five-year-old by Sir Horace out of Good Luck, and wasbred and exhibited by Mr. G. O. Waud, Ferniehurst, Balldon, Yorks. rank, superior birth or character. At first sightthere does not seem to be much to enlighten ushere, though the germ of enlightenment is certainlythere. Superior birth or character seems in away to afford the foundation of a definition,though it scarcely goes far enough. Quality in ahorse, I take it, is the superior character which,whilst marking its possessor as standing out fromthe rank and file of his breed, is still coneistentwith its general attributes. Let me give an illus-tration. If a heavy horse, such as a Shire orSuffolk Punch, for example, had a head lik
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