Quote on owning race horses

excerpt from Horses in America: Essay on the Manner of Improving the Breed by Moreau de Saint-Mary (1795)

Race horses, being adapted neither to the chase nor war and having been often the cause of ruin of the most respectable families in England, cannot, according to good morals be encouraged under a government whose principles are its greatest ornament
 
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