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Old and new fashioned hunters — Fencing power nowadays sacri- 

 ficed to pace — Overgrown colts put to work too soon — 

 Saving overgrown colts — Three horses owned by author — • 

 Big horses more prone to disease than smaller — Short- 

 legged, compact horses — Breeding of author's three horses 

 previously referred to — 'Little big' horses — Scarcity of old- 

 fashioned Irish brood - mares — Mistake of using Clydesdale 

 stallion — Progeny by above stallion — Mares ' throwing back ' to 

 Clydesdale stallion — Mares ' throwing back ' to original sire — 

 Results of breeding for sale only — Exorbitant prices of good 

 hunters at present time — Ignorance of breeders — Worthless 

 horses bred by farmers nowadays — Uselessness of Clydesdale 

 sires — Breeding profitable to farmers — Points necessary to be 

 observed in selecting brood mares — Standard of measurements 

 for horses • — • Author's colts by Marquis — Balance of shape 

 necessary — Necessity for measuring horses at shows — Breeding 

 from unsound stock — Author's horse by Bashful — Author's 

 horse by Cregan — ^Author's mare Fidget — Run with Queen's 

 (1858) — Opinion of V.S. as to brood-mares — Ignorance of V.S.'s 

 — Colts by Marquis — Professor Ferguson — Necessity for 

 careful selection of V.S. by breeders — Perfect soundness of 

 brood-mares imperative — Author's predilection for small horses 

 — Mr. Collins — Strains from which brood-mares were formerly 

 selected — Ignorance of tenant-farmers on breeding — -Proposed 

 course of lectures on breeding — Cheap horses sold for long 

 prices — Horse by Cregan passed over at Dublin — -His measure- 

 ments — His performance in Kilkenny — Made-up fences — 

 Retrospect (Mr. Bryan) — Lord St. Lawrence — Mr. S. Reynell 

 as an M.F.H. — Mr. Filgate (the Louth M.F.H.) — Young 

 M.F.H.'s- — ^ Hunting and riding — Government grant for 

 breeding — -Breeding of race-horses — Judge of breeding estab- 

 lishment to be a certificated V.S. 



It is very difficult nowadays to find the old-fashioned, 

 long, low, short-legged Irish brood-mares so much 



