112 HORSE-BREEDING FOR FARMERS CHAP. 
It ts over a course of years rather than in any 
one year that horse-breeding yields its profits. Farmers 
in Yorkshire often sell their foals, especially Cleve- 
land and coaching colt foals; they are sold on the 
farm or at local shows, at the dam’s foot in the 
summer, and are usually delivered in October. The 
price obtained from the foreign and home buyer for 
such colt foals in the last few years has averaged 
over £30 apiece; whilst I have seen prize foals sold 
for as much as £60. When this can be done, as it 
is done in Cleveland, horse-breeding is often very 
remunerative and risk is reduced to a minimum, the 
whole price for such a foal being practically found 
money, as, except the original service fee, he has 
cost very little With regard to selling young 
hunters, a farmer who hunts himself, or whose sons 
ride the young horses, should ride to sell; he should 
go out often for an hour or two rather than try to 
distinguish himself and his horse in long days with 
hounds. He should be careful and bold, riding 
fearlessly but with judgment ; and when hounds are 
not running, teaching his horse to stand still at 
covert side, to go kennel fadge with the hounds, as 
well as to be in the first flight in a fast run; having 
had one good spin and jumped a few big places, he 
should take his hunter quietly home without paying 
calls on the way. A young hunter should be taught 
to be handy at opening gates, and to jump anything 
and everything in reason on the farm before he sees 
hounds, as nothing is more likely to earn a good 
horse a bad reputation as to see a conflict of opinion 
between him and his rider in the hunting field. 
Many a brilliant and promising young horse has 
