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CHAPTEE XXIY. 



ON BREAKING AND TRAINING HORSES. 



Many of the mares devoted to breeding hunters in 

 this country are unsound and faulty animals, or else 

 old hunters which have done work for several years, 

 and which are in their old age before they begin to 

 breed. The greater part of them probably having 

 contracted some unsoundness or infirmity. This is 

 probably the reason that so large a proportion of 

 horses fail to stand sound. 



There are two ways of avoiding this. First by 

 selecting a young fresh mare and keeping her exclu- 

 sively for the stud ; the objection to this plan is that 

 such a mare, if sound and big enough, is often too 

 valuable for the owner to afford to lose the price 

 she would fetch, being worth from 80?. to 120L The 

 second plan, which might I think be adopted with 

 advantage to a much greater extent than it is, and 

 which will be found to possess several advantages, is 

 as follows. 



Having bred or otherwise become possessed of 







