70 BREEDING ARMY HORSES. 



which produced them. This surely is not as 

 it should be ! We must confess that these 

 foreign powers have been wiser in their 

 generation than we, and by their superior 

 enterprise have gradually denuded us of our 

 best stock, till nearly all their cavalry are 

 better horsed than our own. 



Germany probably has the best cavalry 

 in Europe, and has obtained it more economi- 

 cally than her great neighbour and rival across 

 the Rhine. Prance's mistake has been to 

 give too large sums for the celebrated winners 

 of great stakes in this country ; and Russia 

 seems disposed towards the same error — 

 i.e., if her recent purchase of Galtee More 

 at such an enormous price was intended, as 

 was reported, for the benefit of her Govern- 

 ment studs. The winner of the 1897 Derby 

 was a fine horse in every respect, but he 

 could never have been worth any such sum 

 for Government piu'poses. Instead of giving 

 £20,000 for a single horse, how much better 



