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and heavy-weight hacks, and obviate the necessity of 

 the ever-recurring remarks in the state of the horse 

 market reviews of ' No carriage pairs to hand ; 

 buggy pairs and saddle horses scarce ; many enquiries 

 for them,' &c. 



" And I take it the reason is because of late 

 years sufficient attention has not been paid to the 

 breeding of this class of horse alone,, but that it 

 was sufficient if the culls from the thoroughbred or 

 the light ones from the heavy stock were sold to meet 

 that demand. 



"In years gone by it was not uncommon to hear 

 of mares having arrived from England for breeding 

 purposes. Now-a-days it is a rarity to hear of any 

 coming. The consequence is that you have gone on 

 breeding from those you have ; you have not carefully 

 and thoughtfully culled out your light fiillies, but you 

 have bred from all ; the natural result has followed, a 

 great preponderance of your stock has become light, 

 and you are hampered with it now. To remedy this 

 state of things, and for you to breed horses that will 

 repay you, it behoves you to change your system of 

 breeding, for it is evident that you cannot all at once 

 change your light mares." 



Much of the advice here given to Australian 

 breeders would not be thrown away in this country. 

 It is time, however, that we turn from the con- 

 sideration of the Thoroughbred to the Draught- 

 Horse. 



