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imported into that country about the year 1800 ; there 

 is in existence a picture of such a stallion, a brown, 

 foaled 1819, which was named by his French purchaser 

 Jagger. 



Soon after 1830, Mr. H. R. Phillips* began to supply 

 the French Government with Norfolk Hackneys, and 

 continued to do so for many years. The preference of 

 our neighbours, when the business developed, was for 

 brown stallions of the Performer and Phenomenon strain ; 

 both of these horses, as already mentioned, were brown. 



It was through the sires thus purchased by Mr. Phillips 

 that the Hackney blood was diffused over the horse- 

 breeding districts of France, Germany, Italy and Russia.- 

 Everywhere their value has long been well established ; 

 and in some regions these horses have made very marked 

 impression upon the local stock. Oldenburg, in Germany, 

 since Oliver Cromwell's time, and, no doubt, from a 

 much earlier date, had been famed for the horses bred 

 there. The Oldenburg breeders, by judicious selection 

 of brown mares to mate with the imported Norfolk 

 Hackney sires, have established a remarkably fine breed 

 of dark brown harness horses, ranging in height from. 

 15.2 to 16.3. 



The best-looking horses of the Oldenburg breed have 

 for man)' years past found ready sale in London for 

 carriage work. I have known single horses of this strain 

 to be sold for 200 guineas, and pairs at from 300 to 

 600 guineas. 



Since the termination of the Franco-Prussian War,^ 

 in 1871, France has been our best customer for horses — 

 more particularly for light horses. Animals of the heavy 



* Mr. Phillips was an eminent London horse-dealer who, for 

 fifty years, had almost a monopoly of the work of supplyir\g the 

 Governments of European countries with breeding-stock. 



