

The present seems an appropriate time to put forward a 

 few facts which go to prove the peculiar suitability of small 

 horses for certain campaigning work which demands staying 

 power, hardiness and independence of high feeding. The 

 circumstance that the military authorities have been obliged 

 to look to foreign countries for supplies of such horses for 

 the war in South Africa has suggesied the propriety of 

 pointing out that we possess in England foundation stock 

 from which we may be able to raise a breed of small 

 horses equal to, or better than, any we are now obliged to 

 procure abroad. 



Elsenham Hall, Essex, 

 May, 1900. 



