RIDING & DRIVING HORSES: 

 THEIR BREEDING & MANAGEMENT 



FARMERS' CLUB, LONDON, 2nd MARCH, 1885 



SIR WALTER GILBEY'S ADDRESS:— 



For many years the subjects dealt with in this 

 Address have interested me deeply. Twelve months 

 ago I made application to Mr. Druce, the Secretary of 

 this Club, to make this address, but was unfortunately 

 too late, all arrangements for 1884 having been then 

 made. 



Very many causes have been assigned for the 

 decline of horse-breeding. It will be noticed that I 

 accept one more particularly, to wit, the failure in per- 

 severing to raise animals of size, quality, and value. 

 The principal object which I have in view, therefore, 

 is to make our shortcomings in this respect more gene- 

 rally known, and to offer suggestions for breeding 

 horses of greater size, as they will always command 

 a ready sale at prices remunerative to the breeder. 



It is an admitted fact that we possess the 

 true-bred English sires and dams which cannot be 



