species of animal the research after one quaHty, 

 while it leads to greater perfection therein, is often 

 accompanied by manifest deterioration in other 

 attributes. Such has been the consequence of aim- 

 ing at speed, while the other essentials, such as size, 

 shape, action, and strength, have been wholly lost 

 sight of Horses can be reared according to the 

 wishes and instinct of man, and the blood of the 

 thoroughbred has been sought for and used as 

 though pace was the first and only essential. 



Earl Cathcart says: — 



"In addition and supplementary to blood we 

 must have substance from somewhere. Weight- 

 carrying half-bred horses, chargers and hunters, and 

 strong and nimble enduring hacks are, and will con- 

 tinue to be for ages to come, more and more in 

 demand, and will and must be continually, perhaps 

 increasingly, produced in their natural home — 

 England — and that in the greatest possible per- 

 fection. And if in this affair we cannot attain to 

 the absolute certainty of science, the convergence 

 of many minds and many experiences towards one 

 centre may result in the evolution of some recognised 

 principles. See, for example, how Mr. James Howard, 

 M.P., practically treats the physiology of breeding* ; 

 he comes to the conclusion that certain cardinal 

 points in the art of breeding have been fairly 

 established. Such, for instance, as outward con- 



*" Application of Natural Laws to the Breeding of Horses, Cattle 

 and Sheep."— /oKrart/ Royal Agricultural Society, Vol. 17, 1881. 



