INCREASE IN NUMBERS. 



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remembered that we have to contend against the best horses 

 of other nations, of which there were running in that year 

 (1878), according to the same authority, no less than 600 

 — more than one quarter of the number we possess at the 

 present time, and actually more than the aggregate of 

 horses we had running in 1802. 



In 1836, in the United Kingdom we had 1,489 brood 

 mares, and in 1876 we had 2,858 accounted for according to 

 Messrs, Weatherby's pages ; but there are many others not 

 included in this stud-book — probably scores. Jester's dam 

 being one, whose pedigree is unknown. Of the above mares 

 thirty-seven were sent abroad before foaling. 



Foreigners, who previously bought our yearlings but 

 sparingly if at all, have of late years purchased great numbers 

 at high prices ; against which, as well as the produce of our 

 best mares, which also they have freely bought, we have now 

 to contend. In the same way our very best stallions go from 

 us regardless of price. Buccaneer, one of the very best stallions 

 we ever possessed, went, I think, to Austria. By his aid, Mr. 

 Baltazzi, an Austrian gentleman, won the Derby with a colt 

 hurdle races have not been inchided in the foregoing Tables, and since the end of 

 July, 1871, Hunters' Races on the flat have not been included. 

 Table No. 2. 



Table showing the number of races of different distances in Great Biitain in the 

 undermentioned years, including the principal races in Ireland as reported in the 

 English Racing Calendar : — 



