BREEDING AND REARING. 3 



maintained. The general principles of breed- 

 ing are of course the same with stock of 

 all kinds; but, since this work has for its 

 theme the breeding of horses, we shall 





SHEBINE. 

 Property of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Esq. 



naturally apply them with sole reference 

 to that interesting animal. 



The most important point in breeding, as 

 it seems to me, and the most essential to 

 insist upon at the present time, is to go for 

 quality rather than for mere size. Quality 

 is not a thing easy to be defined, but it is 



