152 PKECEPT AND PliACTICE. 



CONCEENING THE STUD. 



"I STATED in my last conversation that I would, 

 with (we will say) eight out of ten horses, render 

 them perfect hunters in two months ; I do not retract 

 a syllable of this. Let me, however, be perfectly 

 understood. I only mean I would make them per- 

 fect so far as nature had given them the powers of 

 becoming so. A horse may be very clever, and very 

 perfect, yet not possess the capability of one far less 

 desirable as a hunter. Moonraker jumped (I think) 

 thirty-two feet ; but it is not in any shape necessary 

 a horse should be capable of similar exertion to be as 

 good a hunter as can be ridden. I will venture to 

 say we never meet with a fence in a run with fox- 



