318 THE SPORT OF KINGS 



Ireland for quite three-fourths of their horses. 

 The proposed introduction of Hackney stallions 

 into Ireland at the Government expense should 

 therefore meet with determined opposition from all 

 hunting men, for if the Irish hunter breed should 

 suffer as the Yorkshire has done, and there is every 

 reason to think that it will, for the same causes 

 produce the same effects, it will be difficult indeed 

 to find an answer to the question, " Where shall 

 we find our hunters ? " 



