Melton Club, for 300 guineas, and was in his stud 

 when he died. 



"My own impression is that to secure a good 

 hunter the size should be on the side of the dam, 

 and the breeding on that of the sire. A large roomy 

 mare should be put to a small, compact, blood 

 horse. Sir Harry Goodricke, whose courtesy and 

 discrimination of character, both in man and horse, 

 has never been surpassed, was especially jDarticular 

 on this point, and would never buy a hunter whose 

 sire was not thoroughbred." 



Low, in his work on Domesticated Animals,^^ 

 says of hunters : — 



" These form a class rather than a breed of 

 horses, because different varieties of horses may be 

 used for the purpose of hunting, as the race-horse 

 itself or the superior class of saddlehorse of any 

 kind. 



"The modern hunter differs greatly in his 

 character and form from the horses formerly 

 employed in chase in this country, having partaken 

 of that tendency to a lighter form of which all the 

 horses used for the saddle have partaken, and this in 

 an increasing degree, within the last half century. 



"The racehorse is designed essentially for the 

 exercise of the property of speed ; the hunter is also 



* ' ' The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands, ' ' by- 

 David Low, F.R.S.E., of Edinburgh, published 1845. 



