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his progeny sent over to us as carriage 

 horses. 



The most valuable of the carriage horses 

 received by us from the United States and 

 Canada descend from the Hackney sires 

 purchased in England. Breeders in both 

 countries have learned the value of this 

 strain of blood, and have been buyers of 

 English Hackney sires for the past seventy 

 years. 



Fortunately for ourselves we still possess 

 in our several breeds of horses material that 

 cannot be equalled by those of any country 

 in the world ; we still possess the very best 

 of the old Hackney breeding stock, and 

 though it is as yet more remarkable for 

 quality than quantity its numerical strength 

 increases yearly, under the fostering care of 

 the Hackney Horse Society. 



It is not, surely, too much to ask breeders 

 to admit that the horses got in England by 

 Hackneys from judiciously chosen mares are 

 likely to be at least as good as horses got 

 by Hackneys in France or Hungary ? The 

 breeding grounds of those countries are not 

 superior to ours, nor do they possess any 

 great climatic advantages over those of 

 England. 



Granting, therefore, that our opportunities 



