HUNTERS 



hunter and hunter qualifications, than any other 

 variety of horse. 



Its siring qualites are mainly based upon 

 those of speed, intelligence, springiness of 

 action, endurance, and leaping abilities, all of 

 which features are inherent in the blood-horse, 

 derived, as it has been, from Oriental parentage. 



The establishment of weight-carrying hunter 

 sires is, without doubt, the best means for the 

 permanent creation of a fixed type of hunter, 

 capable of carrying any reasonable weight. In 

 the selection of a thoroughbred sire, one of the 

 main features must be to see that the animal has 

 plenty of bone and substance ; that it is of good 

 temperament, and free from any trouble that is 

 likely to be transmitted from parent to progeny. 

 Much the same remarks are applicable to the 

 brood mare, though in a less degree, as the dam, 

 in the author's opinion, plays a less significant 

 part in the physical development of the progeny 

 than the sire. 



Since the foundation of the Hunter's Improve- 

 ment Stud Book Society the breeding of hunters 

 has been carried out on much more scientific 

 lines than hitherto, and all interested in the 



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