50 HINTS TO HOKSEMKN ; OE, 



propriating £5 to a certain purpose will produce a 

 return of fifty per cent., that reluctantly doling of 

 £2 105. will produce a corresponding return in ac- 

 cordance with the minor sum appropriated. It is 

 quite possible that in many things the £5 would 

 produce a return of ten, when the £2 lOs. would 

 produce only such return as would be eventually 

 loss. Such will be about the case, as regards breed- 

 ing in all its particulars. 



Now comes the judgment to be shown in the 

 selection of a sire. If the mare is sufficiently well 

 bred to give fair promise of breeding hunters, put 

 her to a through -bred horse by all means ; in doing 

 so, it would be mere waste of money to select a 

 horse who from his own performances on the turf, 

 or that of any one of his get, will command a 

 high price for his services, for, in the first place, 

 there are many, such horses that would be among 

 the last I should select to breed hunters. If a horse 

 has run honestly, gamely, and with good temper, 

 and kept himself sound, barring accidents, or un- 

 fair taxations of his animal powers, though he has 



