Note 12 — Chapter II · HORSES AND ASSES.
Reading edition
‘Domesticated Animals of the British Islands,’ pp. 527, 532. In all the veterinary treatises and papers which I have read, the writers insist in the strongest terms on the inheritance by the horse of all good and bad tendencies and qualities. Perhaps the principle of inheritance is not really stronger in the horse than in any other animal; but, from its value, the tendency has been more carefully observed.