156 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
186. Organizations and records. — In Great Britain, 
the interests of the breed are in the hands of the Hunter 
Improvement Society of Great Britain. Two volumes of 
the Hunter Stud-book have been published and a third is in 
preparation. The pedigree qualifications of the Hunter 
Stud-book are that the stallions shall be by a Thoroughbred 
or registered Hunter sire out of a fully registered mare, and 
the mares shall show two crosses of Thoroughbred or 
registered Hunter blood, viz., sire and dam’s sire, or if 
dams of winners of races under rules, and accepted after 
inspection. The supplement of the stud-book is open to 
mares (1) by a Thoroughbred or registered Hunter sire, 
winners or dams of winners of prizes or medals at national, 
county or associated shows, or (2) by inspection and veteri- 
nary examination. In America, the Jockey Club, with 
headquarters in New York City, was instrumental in the 
organization of the National Steeple Chase and Hunt As- 
sociation, which registers and otherwise looks after the 
development of the Hunter and the Steeple-chaser. 
Interature. —The literature of the Hunter is for the most part 
interwoven with expositions of the chase, and is not specific and 
direct. Yet some direct discussions will be found in the works 
referred to on page 416. Other references are: Peer, Cross Country 
with Horse and Hound; Walsh, The Horse in the Stable and in 
the Field, London (1871); Goodwin, The Turf Guides; Nimrod, 
The Chase, the Road, and the Turf; Whyte, The History of the British 
Turf, two volumes, London (1840); Curzon, A Mirror of the Turf, 
London (1892). 
