Breeding 



Hunters' Improvement Society — Secretary^ A. B. Charlton, 12 



Hanover Square, London, W. 

 London Cart Horse Parade Society — Secretary, Frank F. Euren. 



12 Hanover Square, London, W. 

 New Forest Pony Association — Secretary, H. St Barbe, 72 High 



Street, Lymington, Hants. 

 Polo and Riding Pony Society — Secretary, A. B. Charlton, 1 2 



Hanover Square, London, W. 

 Royal Agricultural Society of England — Secretary, T. M'Row, 



Bedford Square, London, W. C. 

 Royal Commission on Horse Breeding — Secretary, J. Herbert Taylor, 



12 Hanover Square, London, W. 

 Shetland Pony Stud Book Society — Secretary, Robert R. Ross, 



Balmoral Buildings, 67 Green, Aberdeen. 

 Shire Horse Society — Secretary,]. Sloughgrove, 12 Hanover Square, 



London, W. 

 Suffolk Horse Society — Secretary, Fred. Smith, Woodbridge, Suffolk. 

 Yorkshire Coach Horse Society — Hon. Secretary, John White, the 



Grange, Appleton Roebuck, Bolton Percy, R.S.O., Yorks. 

 Welsh Pony and Cob ^ocxtX.^ — Secretary , James Hamer, Greenfield, 



Penybont, Radnorshire. 



Breeding". — The pursuit of breeding horses is one that 

 is accompanied by a certain amount of risk, owing to the 

 possibility of losses occurring which may undo the work 

 of years. Moreover, although success is morally certain to 

 attend the operations of one man who conducts his business 

 upon a rational basis, by which is meant one who manages 

 his breeding and young stock properly and carefully thinks 

 out his crosses, there is always an element of chance in con- 

 nection with raising horses, and this may dishearten some 

 men who are not blessed with a spirit of perseverance. The 

 breeder who means to succeed must determine to have 

 nothing to do with animals v/hich possess hereditary disease, 

 as their infirmities are certain to reappear in their stock, 

 if not in the first generation, at all events in the second or 

 the third. He should, in thinking out his crosses, omit no 

 endeavour to ascertain the peculiarities of the family to 

 which the horse he intends to use belongs, in order to satisfy 

 himself that the stallion in question is by his breeding likely 



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