80 DRAUGHT HORSES. 



the stereotyped remark ; and tlie explanation 

 of his optimistic view was that he had hred, 

 with considerable judgment and a fair share 

 of good luck, a class of animal for which 

 there is always a good demand — namely, 

 weight- carrying hunters. That is just the 

 point : to make it profitable the breeder 

 must consider what sorts of animal are most 

 in demand, and must then use the very best 

 blood he can obtain. Apart from racehorses 

 and hunters, which require so much luck 

 that the breeding of them becomes almost a 

 lottery, nothing seems to promise better than 

 heavy draught horses. When we come to 

 study the price list of a modern sale of 

 Shires or Clydesdales, and reflect that such 

 prices are not realised just now and again 

 at the dispersal of some famous stud, but 

 whenever such animals can be put upon the 

 market in sufficient numbers to attract 

 buyers, it certainly seems as though the pro- 

 duction of this kind of horse, at any rate, 



