180 HOESES AND BIDING. 



CHAPTEE XXIII. 



BREEDING. 



I NOW come to by far the most important part of my 

 subject in a national point of view, although, it con- 

 cerns only a limited number of those who ride and 

 require horses, and that is the breeding of horses, 

 on which the supply and character of English horses 

 depend. 



I have stated before that I believed there were 

 only four distinct breeds of horses in this country, 

 putting ponies out of the question. 



These four breeds are 1st, The racehorse or 

 thoroughbred horse; 2nd, The coach horse or car- 

 riage horse ; 3rd, The roadster or trotter ; and 4th, 

 The cart-horse or dray-horse. By a distinct breed 

 I mean when a horse's parents are both of the same 

 breed, and used for the same purpose, as himself, and 

 called by the same name. 



It must strike anyone thinking about it for the 

 first time as an extraordinary thing that three of our 

 most important classes of horses, as far as value and 



