122 LIGHT HORSES: BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



or point-to-point races, or that has won premiums at the 

 Spring Shows of the Hunters' Improvement Society then 

 the progeny of such mating will be a commencement of 

 establishing a heavy-weight line of hunters. There is no 

 animal better for coach or carriage purposes or for work 

 requiring powers of endurance, such as doing long journeys 

 by road, than a horse of the hunter class. The result of 

 such an experiment would be sizeable animals, which if not 

 suitable for one purpose would be for another. Here the 

 remark of a writer (Mr. Chas. W. Tindall) is much to the 

 point when he says: * We can make a hunter a harness 

 horse, but all the Acts of Parliament cannot make a harness 

 horse a hunter, and it is a fact beyond dispute that horses 

 of the hunter type are more in demand than any other for 

 general-purpose work.' " 



YOUNG HALF-BRED STOCK. 



It is well that those who undertake the breeding of half-bred 

 stock should thoroughly understand that it is a risky business, 

 and that a great deal of knowledge of one kind and another is 

 required before it can be made to pay. It is also necessary 

 to understand that where no more than two or three foals are 

 bred annually, a loss must inevitably result if the breeder 

 has to pay for labour, or rent of premises. If a man has the 

 convenience for breeding, he may do fairly well in a small way 

 with luck and good management. Attention is drawn to these 

 matters, because they are not without their bearing on the 

 case when the time comes to ask what is to be done with the 

 young horse ? 



Clearly it will not do to pay to have him broken and made 

 into a hunter by any one else, or all the profit (if any) will be 

 swallowed up. 



All young horses should be handled from the day of their 

 birth, it saves a world of time and trouble afterwards in fact, 

 if a foal be constantly handled, and be early fitted with a head 



