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BREEDING 



the time when they are served to the day when they foal down, and 

 onward to the weaning period, a liberal ration of corn, regulated according 

 to the season, should be allowed them. 



An open yard, with a well-littered shed for protection, and a run out in 

 the course of the day if convenient, are the most suitable conditions for 

 winter quarters. 



While making these suggestions, the fact remains that the practice is 

 a bad one at best, notwithstanding that examples of the contrary may 



Fig. 533. —A Sliiverer 



be found in every variety of our horse stock. " That grand horse, Bury 

 Victor Chief, for which Mr. Wainwright paid 1500 guineas, was the 

 produce of Bury Daisy at three years old, and among the Hackneys 

 such famous examples of the breed as Garton Duke of Connaught, Langton 

 Duke, Langton Performer, Vigorous, Astonishment, Orange Blossom, and 

 Dorothy Derby II were all from three-year-old mares. 



" But of the huge total of animals so bred, those which have achieved 

 fame in the ring and at the stud form a very small proportion, and lend 

 no sort of encouragement to the adoption of early breeding as a general 

 system." 



It is in the interest of the race, no less than the breeder, that mares 



