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sire may be required. In the first place, size and substance 

 should receive more consideration. But every pains must 

 be taken to avoid using a horse with long cannon bones or 

 weak pasterns, however good he may be in any other respect. 

 Special care should also be taken to avoid a horse at all light 

 in the loin, or with a tendency to be deficient in his 'back ribs. 

 Perhaps a better example of the successful management of 

 a Cleveland brood mare would be difficult to find than that 

 of Mr. Thomas Peart's famous old mare, Darling, a great 

 show-yard celebrity during the latter half of the fifties and 

 the first half of the sixties. Peart's Darling bred fifteen 

 foals, of which six were stallions of some repute. Two of 

 these were named Brilliant, one of them the sire of Sports- 

 man and other good horses, whilst from his brother descend 

 many mares of exceptional excellence. Master Thomas was 

 another that did good service in Belgium, and Lord of the 

 Manor who was exported to India by Mr. George Holmes, 

 the well-known Beverley veterinary surgeon, was considered 

 by him to be one of the best horses of the breed he ever saw. 

 Captain Cook and Rosebery were also horses of great excel- 

 lence .that were very successful both in the show yard and at 

 the stud, but the first foal Darling had was to a thoroughbred 

 horse, and it came about in this way : she was sent to 

 Wonderful Lad when a two year old, but as she missed to 

 him Mr. Peart had her covered by Perion. The following 

 year she bred a filly foal which ultimately became the 

 property of Mr. H. W. Thomas, of Pinchinthorpe. That 

 gentleman sent her to Newport, and to him she bred a famous 

 horse that was purchased by Mr. John Harvey, the Master of 

 the Durham County Hounds, and that earned a well-deserved 

 reputation as a hunter, being fast, a good stayer, and of ex- 

 traordinary constitution. 



