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who for fifteen years was Master of the 
North Durham Hounds, laid stress on the 
“‘wear and tear” qualities of the hunter 
got by the old stamp of thoroughbred out 
of the Cleveland mare, and conversely of 
hunters got by Cleveland sires out of 
thoroughbred mares. The superior speed 
of the thoroughbred was admitted; but the 
greater endurance of the half-bred hunter 
in hilly country was a quality which gave 
him a value which did not attach to the 
pure thoroughbred. 
Nothing more convincing could have been 
compiled than this essay from several horse- 
breeding correspondents. It shows clearly 
how very great is the change which has 
come over the principal breeding grounds of 
England during the present reign. 
In regard to the disappearance of horses 
of the useful stamp for harness and saddle 
it is not necessary to require evidence for 
the reasons. When we remember how 
enormous was the network of coach route 
that spread all over the kingdom in pre- 
railway days; and consider how vast were 
the studs necessary to horse the mail and 
passenger coaches, to say nothing of the 
post-chaises preferred by people of means ; 
and when we think that the road-coach 
