16 THE HORSE. 



footing, and above all things that horses 

 attached to these branches of the ser- 

 vice should possess quality and sub- 

 stance. These properties she ensures 

 by importing English blood-horses to 

 The improve- improvc the quality, which she mates 



ments among 



foreign horses ^^th coarscr nativo breeds, exhibitino^ 



obtained ^ 



mecirum of ^ substaucc ; and in proof that this system 

 blood. has answered we have only to re- 



member that during the past few years 

 German horses have found their way 

 into this country, and some of the best 

 steppers in London during the past 

 season were bred on the continent. So 

 good are many that it requires more 

 than a good judge to determine their 

 foreiofn extraction. 



France of late years has imitated Eng- 

 land in institutmg races ; but this in 



