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want to breed a pony as near 14.2 as possible. [4.0 

 is too small for polo, and 14.3 is too big, so the margin 

 of height is practically only two inches, a consideration 

 that does not come into the calculations of the breeder 

 of any other kind of stock. At present the difficulties 

 seem great ; but by the light of experience, and 



Fig. 100. — Champion Sire " Rosewater," late "Johnnie Day." 



through the valuable information we hope to gain 

 through the Society, these difficulties may vanish in a 

 few years, and I shall hope to see a breed of polo 

 ponies spring up that will reproduce themselves as 

 surely as does the Thorough-bred, the Shire horse, or 

 the Suffolk. 



Of one thing I am sure, and that is that we cannot 

 expect to get a really good breed of riding and polo 



