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existence for ten years, the Hackney Horse 

 Society having been founded in 1884. The 

 pedigrees would have been forthcoming in 

 the vast majority of cases if not in all ; but 

 certificates of registration were not to be had 

 for the conclusive reason that the animals 

 had lived, and often died, before the Hack- 

 ney Stud Book existed. These were the 

 registered exports to the United States for 

 the few years preceding and following this 

 Act. They speak for themselves : — 



Mr. Edward T. G. Lindsay, writing on 

 "American Hackneys" in the Live Stock 

 Journal Almanac of 1895, says : — 



" Out of thirty-nine Hackney stallions e.xhibited 

 at the Great Madison Square Garden Horse Show, 

 New York, in November, 1893, twenty-nine were 

 bred in England, and of the fifty-four Hackney 

 mares (which do not include those in the half-bred 

 classes) forty-six also came from the old country, 

 and they won all the awards with the exception 

 of four animals, which had a look in with their 

 English rivals in the two-year-old and yearling 

 classes." 



