CHAPTER III 



THE HUNTER. 



The Hunters' Improvement5ociety 



has done much towards the encourage- 

 ment of breeding, and the introduction 

 of premiums to Thoroughbred sires for 

 hunter stock-getting purposes. To 

 estabhsh a race of Hunter sires, seems 

 to be the correct method of solving the 

 chance production of " weight carry- 

 ing " animals. 



The aim of the foregoing Society is 

 not that of discouraging the use of 

 thoroughbred blood in the Hunter, but 

 the production of more stable sources 



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