U STUD BOOKS. 



the only safeguard, it is one which must 

 be scrupulously observed. 



The Stud Book (I use the term generically, 

 to include all Flock and Herd Books, as 

 well as those devoted to the registration 

 of horses) once established, such animals 

 only must be admitted into its sacred 

 pages as derive their origin from parents 

 already entered : otherwise there can be no 

 guarantee of purity of blood. 



In matters equine we have been most 

 consistent. For more than a century and 

 a half we have carefully preserved the 

 pedigrees of our own pure-bred horses, and 

 the single exception to this rule has been 

 the admission to the volumes which contain 

 them of imported Barbs and Arabs of ac- 

 credited race. That our authorities are 

 justified in admitting an imported horse of 

 approved race to the Stud Book without 

 demur is shown by the extraordinary pre- 

 cautions ■ taken by the breeders of high caste 



