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if the Horse Commission turned their 

 attention wholly or partly to the registra- 

 tion of and the granting of premiums 

 to mares, more beneficial results would 

 accrue. 



I am quite certain, if a farmer will 

 attend i\ldridge's or the other London 

 Repositories I have named, he can 

 with patience buy some really grand 

 samples of hunter brood mares for ten 

 guineas each, or perhaps less. This is 

 where the good mares meet their last 

 market I have seen some grand ones 

 included in drafts from Messrs. Tilling 

 of Peckham, who are the largest private 

 job-masters in England. When their 

 wheelers get off their feet on the stones, 

 and can scarcely hobble, they send them 

 to the Repositories to be sold for what 

 they will fetch ; but a few weeks on the 

 cool ground alters all that, though they 



