2o8 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



years before her Majesty came to the throne 

 and commenced that reign during which foreign 

 purchasers have increased in number, difference 

 of nationahty, and extent of business, to a degree 

 that can be best imagined from the statement 

 that, whereas the exportations expressly notified 

 in the hst (though others are dotted about the 

 textual pages) appended to the first volume pub- 

 lished after the commencement of her Majesty's 

 reign amounted to but eighty (all horses, as it 

 does not seem to have been worth while to specify 

 the mares), and, therefore, there was no necessity, 

 when they were so few, to collect them under the 

 heads of the various countries to which they were 

 exported, the similar list to the sixteenth volume, 

 published in 1889, contained an account of no 

 fewer than some 939 horses and 1,330 mares, 

 of all ages ; and the specification of the countries 

 to which they were exported showed that we 

 have customers for our thorough-bred stock in 

 British North America, in South America 

 (whence — for this time only, the holders of 

 Argentine bonds will, no doubt, prophesy — came 

 the most numerous 'deals,' to the tune of about 

 381 horses and 438 mares), in the United States 



