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eligibility for entry. The first consideration is that 

 the good points shall be maintained and developed 

 in a horse, and therefore the observations I have 

 made will exactly tally with the suggestions of 

 Sir Nigel Kingscote, namely, that if entire horses 

 are spread all over the country, it will be to the 

 farmers' interest to use either a stud-book horse 

 or a medal horse — that is to say, one which has 

 won a prize at a country Show or been highly 

 commended, and in this way the inferior horses now 

 travelling the country would be set aside. 



Captain Fife : No doubt it is greatly with the 

 view of what the last speaker has said that the 

 Show and prizes for thoroughbred stallions have 

 been started. We hope it may develop what the last 

 speaker has said, namely, that the bad horses which 

 are not good enough to win prizes will be driven out 

 of the country for the want of patronage, and that 

 the good ones will be brought to light by being 

 awarded prizes, and thus these owners, who have 

 good horses, will find that they have plenty of 

 custom for them. 



His Grace the Duke of Westminster said that 

 he always found that the list for his stallions was 

 very well filled up, and I have no doubt that other 

 good horses would get the same patronage. With 

 regard to the remarks that were made as to the 

 breeding of nag-horses paying, I believe that if 

 farmers would breed from younger mares — if they 



