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that the highest and best attributes of our thorough- 

 breds may be solidly maintained. He follows 

 this up the very next day in speaking of a race- 

 meeting at Wolverhampton, with the statement 

 that, generally speaking, the competitors were of 

 poor class, and that extended comment would be 

 useless. 



Sir Walter Gilbey, in the Live Stock Joui'nal 

 Almanack, 1903, says that the decline in horse- 

 breeding in England still continues. And Sir 

 P. Albert Muntz, Bart., in the same work for 1904, 

 says that there are nothing like the number of good 

 stout, well-bred horses with good limbs and feet that 

 there were formerly, in which opinion he thinks he 

 will have the support of the majority of experienced 

 horsemen. 



Professor Wortley Axe, in \}ci^ Live Stock Journal 

 Almanack, 1903, says that there is still a widespread 

 disregard of inherited defects, and that stallions 

 abandoned by the more careful breeder find their 

 way into the hands of less scrupulous owners, and 

 at a small fee command large patronage. And in 

 the same journal Mr. C. Stein writes that ordinary 

 purposes are served by the sale of the failures. 



It has been lately stated in an eminently first- 

 class and influential Australian newspaper of exceed- 

 ing fairness that Mr. Adye readily acknowledges 

 that horse-racing has improved the breed of horses, 

 and that that proposition is, of course, unquestion- 

 able, since it is only through the instrumentality of 



