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who for fifteen years was Master of the 

 North Durham Hounds, laid stress on the 

 "wear and tear" qualities of the hunter 

 got by the old stamp of thoroughbred out 

 of the Cleveland mare, and conversely of 

 hunters got by Cleveland sires out of 

 thoroughbred mares. The superior speed 

 of the thoroughbred was admitted ; but the 

 greater endurance of the half-bred hunter 

 in hilly country was a quality which gave 

 him a value which did not attach to the 

 pure thoroughbred. 



Nothing more convincing could have been 

 compiled than this essay from several horse- 

 breeding correspondents. It shows clearly 

 how very great is the change which has 

 come over the principal breeding grounds of 

 England during the present reign. 



In regard to the disappearance of horses 

 of the useful stamp for harness and saddle 

 it is not necessary to require evidence for 

 the reasons. When we remember how 

 enormous was the network of coach route 

 that spread all over the kingdom in pre- 

 railway days ; and consider how vast were 

 the studs necessary to horse the mail and 

 passenger coaches, to say nothing of the 

 post-chaises preferred by people of means ; 

 and when we think that the road-coach 



