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Thus, if it be turned to the proper use, I consider tJiat tlie 

 importation of Emperor, the Cleveland Bay, above spoken of 

 and represented, is a move in the right direction, and one 

 likely to have the most generally beneficial consequences. 



If, however, it be intended to set him covering run-out, 

 narrow, weedy thoroughbreds, or half or three-fourths part 

 bred mares, in the hope of giving them bone, bulk, and stamina 

 by the new strain, it needs no prophet to foresee and foretell the 

 very opposite results. 



The animals will have less than the blood — which is the 

 only one good point left to them — of their dams, and none of the 

 characteristics of their sire. Since the mares have neither the 

 uterine capacity to contain the foetus proportioned to such a 

 horse, with natural reference to its growth and development 

 previous to its birth, nor the blood and stamina for its nourish- 

 ment while within their bodies. 



There is another class of importations, that of the Percheron 

 Norman stallions, to which I look with the greatest interest — 

 although with no idea whatever that the stock got directly by 

 them out of any class of mares, whatever, will be of use for 

 any other purpose than draught. It is as the progenitors of 

 mares, which will cast the finest foals for general work, to 

 thoroughbred horses, deriving show, size, round action, and 

 bone from the dams, speed, endurance, courage, and blood from 

 the sires, that I consider they will be invaluable, and even su- 

 perior to the Cleveland Bays — in that they, in themselves, 

 possess a share of Barb blood, and that they have by nature, 

 with some size, the very form, and the shape, and quality of 

 bone which we desire. 



I have no doubt that even well-chosen, pure Canadian mares 

 would produce wonderfully improved stock to horses of this, 

 their own, original strain — but that the larger-sized mares of 

 Canada, the result of a cross between Canadians and well-bred 

 English crosses — that is to say, the produce of one or two out- 

 crossings after a long continuance of in-breeding — put once 

 more to pure Norman stallions, would produce wonderful stock, 

 can, in fact, hardly be questioned, by any one at all conversant 

 with the theory of breeding, or its practice. And that the off- 

 spring of the mares of that new strain, by properly selected 



