132 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Pierre Lorillard's "Barrett" was taken to England, as 

 he had been tried on tlie dirt course and found faster than 

 "Iroquois;" but he was unable to extend himself on the 

 slippery grass courses, and was later brought back to this 

 country. He stood at Genesee valley, and sired some won- 

 derfully good hunters, one of which I purchased, " Sweet 

 Brier," whose dam was a road mare. 



To show you the staying qualities of this one-half bred, I 

 would state that she was driven on Saturday from Worcester 

 to Lynn ; on Sunday, from Lynn to the Myopia Hunt Club ; 

 on Monday she was shown in the hunter classes, and won 

 several ribbons ; Tuesday I hunted her on a twelve-mile run 

 at 6 A.M. ; at 9 a.m. she started for Worcester, sixty odd 

 miles, and landed there at 9 o'clock that night in good 

 shape, having eaten everv meal on the road, and four quarts 

 after she arrived home. 



The champion hunter at Islington, " Roj^al Mask," will 

 give you a little idea of what may be obtained with thor- 

 oughbred crosses ; and the horse rearing on one leg shows 

 that strength is not necessary to jump, .simply the "know 

 how." This was wonderfully exemplified at the last New 

 York horse show, when the half-bred hunter "Rupert" 

 walked into the wings of the jumps from four feet six inches 

 up to six feet without an etfort, and hopped over the top of 

 them. 



The winnino' EnoHsh stallion of 1903 will show you that 

 the thoroughbred type of to-day, instead of being light- 

 boned, thin and lanky, is a wonderful example of much in 

 little, as compared with the Percheron or shire. 



There are many sluggish, coarse-bred mares, which, crossed 

 with thoroughbreds, would produce a type of horse such as 

 my " Rubdry." When my countrj^ jilace at Grafton was in 

 the process of construction, " Rubdry " could and did outpull 

 every horse that was on the place ; if there was ever a rock 

 to be got out that the others could not start, they put him 

 on, and he generally pulled it. As a weight-carrying hunter 

 he won second at the late Norfolk show, and carried my 

 brother successfully for a season with their hounds ; has 

 jumped five feet time and time again, and is a most useful 



