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tually succeeded in getting sixteen of them 

 in foal by these means. Another breeder 

 gives as his experience that out of seven- 

 teen mares which had refused to stand to 

 a horse (some of them for several years) 

 nine fine and healthy living foals w^ere pro- 

 cured in the same way. 



The practice as yet is by no means general, 

 and only one case, so far, has come under 

 my own personal observation. This was a 

 mare named Brimstone, some few years ago 

 a noted winner of point-to-point steeple- 

 chases in Wilts and Dorset. After repeated 

 trials and disappointments, both with 

 thoroughbred and carthorse sires known as 

 sure foal-getters, she was at last successfully 

 impregnated, and produced in due course a 

 strong foal, by means of insemination. Most 

 of us who have bred at all have been at 

 some time or other disappointed, by the 

 repeated refusal of some valuable or favourite 

 animal, whose good qualities we desired to 



