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If the class of horse that has now been suggested 

 by Mr. Walter Gilbey could be produced and carried 

 on, I am ' afraid you would often get too soft an 

 animal to go the pace and to carry the weight 

 required as a hunter and hack. Another question 

 has been suggested about the Government taking 

 this matter up. 



When I went to Austria some years since, I 

 learned that the Government sent round, and that if 

 a farmer or any owner of land said he would under- 

 take the management of a good entire horse, they 

 would send him one, and the whole district round 

 could get the services of that horse for a very small 

 sum — I do not think much more than I05. of our 

 money. I believe, also, that the money paid by the 

 farmers went towards the keep of the horse. I think 

 something of this sort could be done in this country ; 

 either that the Government themselves should assist, 

 or that every master of hounds in England, where 

 it was practicable, should be persuaded to keep a 

 good horse for the use of the farmers in the hunt. 



I remember many years ago with the Queen's 

 hounds they sent down a horse to Aylesbury called 

 Carbonaro. Old Lord Lonsdale also sent a horse 

 called Uncommon, brother to Jericho, a remarkably 

 good animal. Sir Nathaniel Rothschild now kindly- 

 keeps a horse for the use of the farmers of the 

 district. I believe that system might be carried on 

 throughout the country with a very great deal of 

 effect. I think such is the knowledge of masters of 



