The Stable Handbook 



amount of time, trouble, and expenditure are 

 necessary. *'Howdo you manage to give three 

 hundred guineas for your hunters ? " was a ques- 

 tion once asked of an extravagant and impecunious 

 young man. ** Oh ! it's not the three hundred for 

 the horse that troubles me ; it is the three quid of 

 ready to go and see him with," was the reply. 

 But it is the occasional expenditure of the " three 

 quid of ready" that is a considerable factor in 

 the successful purchase of the poor man's horse. 

 Such animals will not come to you ; you must 

 go to them. They are to be found, but they 

 must be looked for. I could find, without much 

 difficulty, if money was forthcoming, a hunter or 

 carriage horse or polo pony, but the poor man's 

 horse is not so easy to discover. 



The sort of horse we want, strong, active, en- 

 during and docile, must be sought in his native 

 place, where he is bred ; useful as he is the price 

 does not admit of his being sent far from home. 



The wise man wanting a useful horse will turn 

 his attention to one of those districts where there 

 is the right foundation of moorland pony blood. 



I should go to Ireland, to Wales, or to the 

 West of England, confident that I should obtain 

 what I wanted. Then there is the New Forest. 

 A friend of mine there has two cobs about 13. 3 

 that draw a fair sized wagonette from the 

 station to his house. Three miles in twenty 

 minutes is what he expects of them. With these 



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