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are at least equal to those of our Con- 

 tinental neighbours, we can, without fear 

 of challenge, assert that on the Hackney 

 sire we must rely to breed the stock of 

 which we stand in greatest need, namely, 

 high-class upstanding carriage horses. 



MARES SUITABLE TO BREED FROM. 



It goes without saying that the Hackney 

 sire must be used with discrimination and 

 judgment; but if mated with sizeable mares 

 of his own breed, with thoroughbred mares, 

 with hunter mares possessed of size and 

 substance, or with the big mares called in 

 the trade vanners and havino- thoroug-hbred 

 blood in their veins, his stock can be de- 

 pended on to supply the class of animal we 

 want. 



Writing to the Field in June, 1896, Mr. 

 Alexander Morton oave a striking instance 



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of the good results obtained by using a 

 Hackney sire on an Irish mare. He said : — 



" A neighbour of mine bought a clean-boned clever 

 Irish mare, one of the sort so common in Ireland that 

 do not come to weiglit for a hunter, and are sold as 

 this one was for about 25 gs. He had four gets from 

 her by different thoroughbred horses, each of which 

 was sold at four years old for less than £\o. He then 

 put her to a Hackney sire, and the first produce was 

 sold at over ^80. Another neighbour, Mr. Scott, of 



