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and is the ideal hunter when built the right way, and 
commands the top price of the market. 
The surest way to breed a weight-carrier—a 
horse up to 15 or 16 stone, that has courage, quality, 
fair pace, and bottom—is to breed from a good class 
of Cleveland mare, selecting one which is shorter 
coupled than the show-ring type. There is a great 
deal of quality in the Cleveland ; they are fast and 
free in action, enduring in work ; and the Cleveland 
is a pleasant and easy hack. I have seen Clevelands 
ridden to hounds and have hacked an undersized 
Cleveland mare, no one suspecting her origin and 
pedigree. A Cleveland mare to a Thoroughbred 
produces a very fine type of weight-carrying hunter, 
and I know men amongst the hardest riders who say 
that the hunters they have had bred in this way were 
the boldest, best, and most enduring they have ever 
ridden. Mr. Thos. Parrington, of Yorkshire fame, 
considers that the very finest hunters that can be 
bred are the first, or better still, the second cross off 
a Cleveland mare. Such a brood mare may, of 
course, miss throwing horses of the best hunter type, 
but if she does, she throws a splendid bay carriage 
horse, and these lines seem to be as safe to follow as 
any. 
So far I have hardly alluded to cavalry remounts, 
and I do not intend to say much about them to 
farmers. The miserable price offered by the Govern- 
ment for troop horses will not at present make it 
worth while for farmers to attempt to breed the horse 
that is required. 430 to 435 is all farmers will get 
for cavalry remounts, which are bought in the first 
instance by dealers, and such a price can leave no 
