Carluke, bought a light Irish mare for about /'20. 

 She was by Ascetic, and turned out too small for the 

 hunting field. This mare he crossed with a Hackney 

 sire, and the first produce is one of the best mares 

 now in the country — No. 3856 Gillyflower, sold at 

 Mr. Scott's sale for 150 gs., champion of all ages at 

 the great Cardiff Show last year, and now valued by 

 her owner at nothing short of four figures. 



FAILURE IN PRODUCING CARRIAGE HORSES. 



When it was thought that railways would 

 take the place of coach-horses and post- 

 horses, we almost ceased to breed them. 

 This was a mistake which English breeders 

 have never corrected : the old market for 

 coach and post-horses is of course gone for 

 ever ; but there is now greater demand than 

 ever existed at any period of our history as 

 a country for high class harness horses. No 

 stamp of horses sells more readily or brings 

 a better price than a good up-standing 

 carriage horse with shape and action. 



Increased prosperity during the last 60 

 years, due to the spread of railways, the 

 discovery of gold in our colonies and many 

 other causes, has raised the general standard 

 of living ; and where one man kept carriage 

 horses in early Victorian days, twenty or 

 twenty-five keep them now. 



Our failure to breed such animals has been 



