QUEEN'S PREMIUM SIRES. 14.7 



long, wide, roomy, and low, with good bone 

 and sound constitution — can hardly do better 

 than send her to a King's Premium sire, 

 when, if the new Government system be thus 

 properly supported, the result can hardly fail 

 to be satisfactory to all concerned. Much 

 must still be left to the individual breeder's 

 enterprise and acumen ; but His Majesty's 

 Premiums may at least be expected to do 

 more for the breeding of superior horses in 

 this country than the Queen's Plates can 

 have done, at any rate in the later degenerate 

 stage of their existence. 



