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pleasure in peace, for our credit and advantage in 

 commerce, and may be for our safeguard in war." 



He supports his statements by the opinions of 

 several practical breeders, and gives also the names, 

 extending back over twenty years, of persons asking 

 for information on various points connected with his 

 subject. 



In addition, he quotes from the reports of 

 the Stewards and Judges of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, complaining of the Hunters and Carriage 

 Horses exhibited at the different shows for a period 

 •of twenty years, from 1863 to 1883. 



Thus we find that in 1868, at Leicester, in a 

 fox-hunting country, "Stallions were a moderate 

 lot, the Hunters being- especially disappointing." 



At Manchester, in 1869, "the Thoroughbred 

 Horses were bad." 



At Oxford, in 1870, we were told that "In- 

 feriority generally prevails." 



At Hull, in 1873, "The Show was not grand 

 for Yorkshire." 



At Taunton, in 1875, Lord Cathcart says, " In 

 Somersetshire the Thoroughbred Horse is almost as 

 unknown as the Dodo." 



The Honble. Francis Lawley,* in his Report on 

 the International Horse Show at Kilburn in 1879, 

 states that no less a sum than ^^ 1,060 was offered 



*"The Report upon the Exhibition of Horses at Kilburn," by the 

 Honble. Francis Lawley, Journal Royal Agricultural Society, Vol. 15, Second 

 Series, 1879. 



