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haired round-boned horse, even though the latter might measure more 

 under the knee with the tape. Airyone comparing the cannon bone of a 

 Suffolk with a hairy-legged horse after it has been skinned will at once see 

 that the former is more like a piece of ivory, while the latter is coarse in 

 texture. The Suffolk horse is also well adapted for mating with the 

 thoroughbred mare for the purpose of breeding that most difficult of all 

 animals to get viz., the weight carrying hunter ; and several of our most 

 famous sires, Heir Apparent, Royalty, Viceroy, Dandy, &c., have been 

 sold to Ireland with that object, and have met with success. The clean 

 hard legs and size of the Suffolk, in conjunction with the blood and 



Fig. 88. Suffolk Stallion " Wedgewood " (1749). 



Winner of the Gold Medal presented by Her Majesty the Queen, and of the Champion 

 Prize given by the Suffolk Stud-book Association for the best Suffolk Stallion at the 

 Jubilee Show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Windsor, 1889. Bred by 

 Mr. P. A. Posford, of Falkenham, Ipswich. Exhibited by Mr. Alfred J. Smith, of Rendle- 

 shain, Woodbridge, Suffolk. 



staying powers of the thoroughbred, combine in the production of those 

 necessary adjuncts to the hunter, size and speed, and from the 

 impetus that the breeding of hunters is now receiving from the Royal 

 and other societies, I expect to see the Suffolk horse and mare brought 

 still further into play in this matter. 



" The Suffolk Punch is pre-eminently an agricultural horse, will 

 drag a ton behind him with ease, and will perform all the work that 

 is required of him on the farm. Suffolk men, high and low, love their 

 horses, as the Yorkshireman loves his thoroughbred and the Arab his 

 steed, and grudge neither time, attention, nor labour to bring their 

 equine friends to perfection. I venture to assert, without fear of con- 

 tradiction, that he is what the talented editor of the Suffolk Stud-book 



