/ take it for granted that the readers of 

 this Fourth Edition are at one with the 

 writer in regarding preservation of the 

 character of our English horses as a matter 

 of national importance. 



The desirability of breeding horses for 

 harness, that we may render ourselves less 

 dependent for these npon the foreign breeder, 

 will also be admitted. 



Since the Spring Shoivs in London this 

 year, there has been, at all the Agricultural 

 Societies Shows, an unusually brisk trade in 

 horses, including horses for harness. This 

 fact would seem to furnish an answer to the 

 assertion so often made of late, that the motor 

 car will supersede the carriage drawn by one 

 horse or a pair. 



Eheiiliain Hall, Essex, 



December, 1904. 



