64 BREEDING ARMY HORSES. 



thing, which the thirteen-stone rider would 

 suppose just fit to "carry his boots," goes 

 on with ease and safety to tlie finish. 



"We are of course aware that the officers 

 charged with the important duty of se- 

 lecting cavalry remounts are men of the 

 best experience in their profession, and 

 very often good judges of a horse to boot, 

 but they are of necessity limited as to price, 

 and perhaps a little hampered by traditions 

 of the past, when cavalry service was very 

 different from what it is now, both as regards 

 the duties to be performed, and the stamp 

 of horses and men best suited to perform 

 them. No doubt those horses, which so 

 poorly satisfied our country critics at the 

 1898 manoeuvres (but which, as we have 

 admitted, seemed to do their wort so much 

 better than their appearance would lead one 

 to expect), were the best that in sufficient 

 numbers could be procured at the regulation 

 price ; but need they be so, if Government 



