this way is very limited, over a considerable number 

 of years. I attribute this failure to the attempt to 

 get size from the sires used. A big thoroughbred 

 horse and a well half-bred mare may produce a tall 

 leggy horse, but seldom a short-legged strong one. 



" Some of our best weight-carriers have doubtless 

 been first-cross from the thoroughbred horse and 

 a cart mare, and I consider that it is indispensable 

 that the mare should have the size and substance,, 

 and from these sorts of mares it has been found 

 that medium-sized and even small short-legged 

 thoroughbred horses with good sound feet, good legs 

 and action have proved the most successful sires. 



"We all in Yorkshire look back to horses got 

 by Old President, MacOrville and Perion, all small 

 horses, but they were mated with what were called 

 Chapman and Cleveland mares, which did the farm 

 work in our northern dales, and produced the best 

 hunters and carriage horses of the times. These 

 mares were got by half-bred sires out of the cart- 

 mares of the country, the sires generally having a 

 cross of thoroughbred blood. They were kept as much 

 as possible to a good bay colour, with black legs, and 

 the colts were always saleable either for hunting or 

 harness. The fillies were kept on the farms and 

 bred from again. This I am inclined to think is the 

 only way that horse breeding can pay the farmer." 



The task the breeder sets himself in seeking 

 to procure suitable sotmd sires is not an easy one,, 

 as it is essential in selecting a Thoroughbred Stallioa 



