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If you ask any of the best dealers in London 

 to get a pair of well-bred English carriage-horses, 

 you will have to give an enormous sum for them, 

 and they will have great difficulty in getting them 

 at all. I most cordially agree with every word that 

 Lord Carington said with regard to the thanks due 

 to Mr. Walter Gilbey, and I am sure we all feel 

 deeply grateful to him. I know it will please him 

 most if we go and act on what he has said. 



The UuKE of Westminster, K.G. :* Mr. Chair- 

 man and Gentlemen, I share, I believe, a very 

 common dislike among English gentlemen — that of 

 making a speech, and I came here with the intention 

 of listening rather than speaking ; because really, in 

 point of fact, I have very little practical experience 

 in breeding half-bred stock, which, I suppose, is 

 the main object and interest of our meeting here 

 to-day. 



The chief difficulty, it appears to me, on the 

 face of it, is the exportation of so many of our 

 best mares. Now, the evidence given before Lord 

 Rosebery's House of Lords Committee some years 

 ago — I think I shall be borne out in what I say by 

 those gentlemen present who have read the Report, 

 and who probably themselves, like Mr. Tattersall, 

 gave evidence — showed that there was a general 

 unanimity of feeling and opinion that the best mares 

 of England, and especially Cleveland mares, had gone 



* Since deceased 



