CHAP, VIII THE FOAL gI 
more than from 60 to 80 mares a season. I have 
known a Cleveland stallion serve 260 mares a season 
with a high percentage of foals—a record not to be 
commended. Much depends on care being taken 
that the mares are in the right condition. It can 
easily be understood that a horse that stops the 
great majority of his mares with one service apiece 
can do a much better season than one that has to 
cover his mares three or four times; 50 may be 
enough for the latter, 150 not too many for the 
former. I had a four-year-old Cleveland that covered 
100 mares at that age, foaled his mares wonderfully 
well, and finished his season in better condition than 
he commenced it. At the end of the season I 
showed him in a large class of coaching stallions at 
the Yorkshire show, where he took second prize to 
Sultan, and where I sold him for a high figure to 
South Africa. Let me illustrate what I have said 
from another experience. I had an old Thoroughbred 
stallion, Syrian, twenty-three years ‘old, and limited 
him to about 20 mares besides my own. He foaled his 
mares only moderately, and his groom advised me to 
let him serve 50 mares and he would do better. 
Accordingly next season I let him serve upwards of 
40 mares besides my own, and he foaled his mares 
splendidly. One man who sent five mares to him 
had five foals,.one of them off an aged mare that 
had refused to breed for some years. A horse that 
does not travel or get plenty of exercise cannot serve 
as many as a horse that is out most of every day in 
the week. Much also depends on the groom. A 
steady, careful man, who is fond of and studies his 
horse, is the only sort that should have charge of a 
