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Feeling the directors of the Royal Academy 

 -would not think it of sufficient public interest, I have 

 made arrangements for an exhibition at the gallery 

 ■of Messrs. Vokins in Great Portland Street, in May 

 next, of paintings by Wootten, Seymour, W. Smith, 

 Henry Aiken, Samuel Aiken, Chalon, .Morland, 

 Stubbs, Sartorius, Ferneley, Dalby, Abraham Cooper, 

 Herring, Gilpin, Ward, and Landseer. I have also 

 sent to the Portland Street Gallery engravings and 

 illustrated books of horses, and a copy of a letter 

 from Sir Joshua Reynolds to Stubbs, complaining 

 that while he received only ^50 for his portraits of 

 his sitters, he (Stubbs) obtained as much as ^100 

 for his paintings of a race-horse. 



Leaving art, however, let us return to our 

 ■subject. Thoroughbred stallions have not at the 

 present time the old attributes of strength to carry 

 the heavy weights in long distance courses and four- 

 mile heats, and are not so suitable for breeding 

 serviceable half-bred stock. 



Mr. George Lascelles, in attempting to show 

 how, by keeping the right sort of mare, and using 

 the most suitable stallion, a farmer may reasonably 

 ■expect to breed a sound saleable horse, with substance 

 and action, remarks : — 



" I have had some experience and the oppor- 

 tunity of watching the result of breeding from good 

 well-bred hunting mares with at least three crosses 

 of pure blood, and I must admit that the number of 

 valuable horses, say up to fourteen stone, bred in 



