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for stud purposes to avoid tall, leggy, oversized 

 animals, and particularly those having crooked 

 fore-legs, badly set pasterns, curby or sickle hocks, 

 ewe necks. Above all other considerations, the 

 sire should possess good feet, and have true, straight 

 action. Pliability of the knee is not necessary, but 

 good hocks and galloping action cannot be dispensed 

 with. It is, on the other hand, of little importance 

 that he should have won races, and still less material 

 is it that he should have been successful in pro- 

 creating stock to run in short-distance races. 



The qualities required in a successful breeder 

 are Well summed up by Mr. Maynard in his contri- 

 bution to Earl Cathcart's article : — 



"Not one man in a thousand has accuracy of 

 eye and judgment sufficient to become an ^ eminent 

 breeder ; if gifted with these qualities, and he 

 studies his subject for years, and with indomitable 

 perseverance devotes a life-time to it, he will succeed, 

 and :may make great improvements: if deficient in 

 these qualities assuredly he will fail." 



. " My father," he says, "bought a three-yea.r-old 

 col;t by President from a really good Cleveland 

 draught-mare, which turned out well ; he rode 

 the horse himself, with his own hounds, and with 

 Mr. Millbanks' for two years, and then sold him to 

 the late Sir Harry Goodricke for 400 guineas. He 

 sold another to the Duke of Cleveland for 400 

 guineas, by Woldsman, out of a plough mare : this 

 horse could not be beaten with fifteen stone pn his 



