HORSES: THEIR POINTS AND MANAGEMENT 



It is a mistake, I believe, to mate heavy cart horse 

 sires with smaller mares in hilly districts. The climate 

 and the more or less exposed nature of the districts should 

 be considered in all cases. Smaller horses, quite as well bred 

 and (juite as strong in the bone, according to their size, as the 

 larger, can easily be found ; but without doubt, it is 

 size that tells in value, provided the foal can be reared and 

 developed naturally in his native surroundings. 



Secondly, I would refer to that class of serviceable light 

 cart horse called a vanner, the breeders of wdiich follow no 

 particular line of breeding. 



Generally, the breeding is haphazard, a cross often betw'cen 

 a half bred small cart mare and a strong cob or vice versa. 

 As far as I am aware, no one has systematically bred this class 

 of animal ; therefore, I will pass it over without further refer- 

 ence. 



Third. Light horse breeding. 



I will, in this section, confine myself almost entirely to 

 the native product in its various types and conformations. I 

 shall refer to the hackney cross as occasion requires, and I 

 wish it to be understood that by the term " hackney " I mean 

 the modern hackney, the produce of registered breeding on 

 defined lines, during the last thirty years, there being a fusion 

 of thoroughbred blood in many strains, generations ago, with 

 the old English cobs and hackneys before registration. I do 

 not include those pure Welsh cobs, of pure \\>lsh blood, which 

 were registered in the early days of hackney registration, when 

 entries were admitted from unnamed and unregistered dams. 



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