they would have discovered how large a part 

 the Hackney had played in establishing the 

 breed of Anglo-Norman carriage horses. 



FOREIGN HORSES COMING TO ENGLAND. 



The growth of our dependence on foreign 

 countries for horses of the useful type has 

 been dealt with at length elsewhere.* It 

 will be sufficient to mention here that in 

 the ten years, 1863-1872, we bought 29,131 

 horses, while in the ten years, 1893- 1902, 

 we bought 340,337 horses from foreign 

 breeders. A proportion of these — the most 

 valuable proportion if the smallest — consists 

 of high-class carriage horses. 



BREEDING STOCK SOLD TO FOREIGNERS. 



America secured one of the horses to 

 which all the best trotting blood in the 

 United States is traced, in the year 1788, 

 when Messenger was exported ; and in 1822 

 another sire, Roger Jary's Bellfounder (55) 

 out of Velocity by Stevens' Bellfounder by 

 Moot's famous horse Pretender, was landed 

 in Boston. Pretender was a dark brown 



* Horse Breeding in England and Horses for the Army. 

 By Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart. Vinton and Co., Ltd., 

 1904. 



