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entries, should be given at country shows for the best and 

 most suitable animals, undocked, when the Government 

 inspector might claim all shown in these classes at 35 each, 

 if suitable. (6) On ist September the selected animals 

 would become the property of the Government at the prices 

 agreed upon, and the sum be paid at once to the owner, he in 

 turn agreeing to keep the animal in healthy condition for 

 one year more or less, at the rate of 45. per week ; should 

 the horse not remain in good condition, the Government 

 reserve the right of reducing the amount to be paid for 

 keep. (7) The purchased animals to be branded or marked 

 in some way to identify them whilst in the farmers' posses- 

 sion, and a local person living in each district appointed to 

 look after the mares lent and the produce, who shall report 

 in the first place to the Secretary of the Hunters' Improve- 

 ment Society, who will then communicate with the War 

 Office." 



After a full discussion, recorded in vol. vii. of the Hunters* 

 Stud Book, 1898, whether or not only Thoroughbred stallions 

 should be admitted to the register of hunter sires, it was 

 decided, under necessary safeguards, that a sire need not be a 

 registered Thoroughbred if the foreign strain were of a 

 quality which had won races under Jockey Club or National 

 Hunt rules. A supplement to the Stud Book has been 

 opened for mares and fillies without registered numbers 

 the test being inspection under the Council's regulations, or 

 prize-winning at recognised shows. The supplement is 

 intended to be a feeder to the Stud Book. 



The Brood Mare Society was established in 1903, "for 

 the purpose of obtaining (free from hereditary disease strong 

 hunter-bred) mares by gift or purchase, and lending them to 

 farmers and others on certain conditions, the object being to 

 keep good brood mares in the country, and restrict their 

 wholesale exportation and the consequent deterioration in 

 the breed of horses in the United Kingdom." 



The President in 1906 was The Earl of Donoughmore, 

 The Earl of Rothes being past-President. The Central Com- 

 mittee in London consisted of : Algernon Tumor (Chair- 

 man), Col. T. Deane ( Vice- Chair man) ; W. Phillpotts Williams, 

 (Hon. Manager], 7 Carwinion Terrace, Liskeard ; E. W. 

 Tilling, Captain Phipps Hornby, Charles Armstrong, Leopold 



