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It must be added that by no means 

 every exporter of a Hackney notifies the 

 sale to the Society, and the figures which 

 follow, taken from the summary of Export 

 Certificates orranted, do not therefore repre- 

 sent the total number exported in any year.* 



The first fact to arrest the eye in glanc- 

 ing over these figures is the heavy falling 

 off in the number of Hackneys exported 

 in the years 1893 ^-^d 1894 from those 

 in previous years. The diminution is 

 explained by the action of the American 

 Government, whose Customs Regulations 

 were so altered as to make the importation 

 of Hackneys extremely difficult. The im- 

 port duty of 33^ per cent, ad valorem was of 

 itself enough to administer a severe check, 

 but in addition to this it was required that 

 the sire and dam of each parent of every 

 Hackney landed in America must have 

 been registered in the Hackney Horse 

 Society's Stud Book ! 



Such legislation as this could have but 

 one result on the trade in a breed of horses 

 whose Stud Book had then only been in 



'■■'■ At the large show of Hackneys held in the Agri- 

 cultural Hall in March, 1904, there was a brisk 

 demand by foreign buyers in search of stock to ship 

 abroad. 



