BREEDING. 65 



The general despondency before mention- 

 ed, respecting the survivor, is not to be jus- 

 tified where the foal is of value adequate to 

 the trouble ; nor indeed to be neglected up- 

 on the score of hwnanity, when unremitting 

 industry and perseverance can so readily fur- 

 nish an artificial substitute for maternal care 

 and nutrition. It may be naturally concluded 

 I allude to the great probabihty (and in 

 some case certainty) of bringing the foal up 

 by hand ; a remarkable instance of which be- 

 comes immediately applicable, in the perfect 

 recollection of a horse bred by his late Royal 

 Highness William Duke of Cumberland, 

 that at his death became the property of the 

 celebrated Captain O'Kelly, and in the suc- 

 cessive possession of both, for a series of 

 years, won more give-and-take plates than 

 any other horse in the kingdom. 



The fact was exactly thus : the colt being 

 the first foal of a young mare that had been 

 taken into the brood stud without training, 

 upon the produce of which his Royal High- 

 ness had formed great expectations, it proved 

 matter of much surprize and disappointment 

 (being totally repugnant to the reciprocal af- 



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