30 TABULAR STATEMENT. 



Thus it will be seen that with liberal diet a mare 

 may be kept in the ordinary way for the sum of 15/. 

 per annum inclusive of good attendance. 



The cost of foals will be nearly the same until they 

 enter the training stable, and I consider from experi- 

 ence that about 307. will clear both the mare and foal's 

 expenses through the twelve months ; and if we take 

 25 guineas as the average charge for the use of first- 

 class stallions, we shall have a total of 551. on the year- 

 ling's head at the time he is offered for sale or enters 

 the training stable. 



It is commonly asserted that to render breeding 

 remunerative, yearlings should average at least lOOgs. 

 per head ; still I think breeders might justly be content 

 with some 251. per head under this, unless the mares 

 had been very high priced indeed. 



The public, however, are very variable in matters of 

 horse-flesh, and unless certain strains become fashion- 

 able, very low prices are obtained. It should always 

 be remembered that although no animal commands so 

 high a price as the thorough-bred colt if of high cha- 

 racter, no animal is so valueless as the reverse. There- 

 fore it stands to reason that a breeder must go for 



