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CHAPTER XL 



POLO PONY BREEDING. 



General remarks — Polo Pony Society — Experiences of breeders. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



I APPROACH the subject of pony breeding with a certain 

 amount of diffidence, and must ask my readers to bear 

 in mind that I do not wish to pose as an authority on 

 the subject ; for any ideas I may have of my own 

 about it are more or less theoretical. 



I had a small breeding stud of some half-dozen 

 mares in Ireland, but the young stock did not grow 

 big enough on the poor land, and I disposed of 

 the stud. 



What I propose doing in this short chapter is to 

 quote some of the best authorities, and to leave my 

 readers to form their own opinions. 



A good deal of interest has been taken during the 

 last few years in the subject of the improvement of 

 the breed of ponies, and I am certain that great strides 

 have already been made in this direction, though much 

 remains to be done. At the Royal Agricultural Show 

 at Chester, on June 20th, 1893, ^he Polo Pony Stud 

 Book Society was formed with the object of improving 

 the breed of polo and riding ponies. The first volume 



