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 full)' appreciate the vote of thanks which )()u ht 

 passed. In replying to the various remarks made 

 during the discussion I shall endeavour to be as brief 

 as possible, having already taken up so much of your 

 time. I had no intention of disparaging the thorough- 

 bred horse, because, for turf purposes, I believe, he 

 has been bred with more speed; consequently is more 

 valuable for the greatly increased number of races 

 and high value of the stakes for which he now 

 competes. He is not so symmetrical, and his strength 

 and power of endurance has been sacrificed for the 

 property of speed. I will refer you to the engravings 

 and paintings of "Marske," "Eclipse," "Mambrino."' 

 and " Shark," and I think you will then admit that 

 thoroughbreds, at the present time, although they 

 have increased in stature four inches in the past 

 hundred years, have not, at any rate, all the attributes 

 for other purposes than racing they had in the last 

 century. To realise this fully, it is perhaps necessary 

 that you should have the same faith that I have in 

 the greatest of all anatomical animal painters, George 

 Stubbs, R.A. My belief is that he could only portray 

 on canvas the animals as he saw them, and we have 

 in his pictures the thoroughbred as he existed in his 

 time. 



As to the remarks of my friend, Mr. Edmund 

 Tattersall, I should state I am not a believer in 

 Government assistance for the objects we have in 

 view. Private enterprise has carried us thus far. If 

 we wait for State aid, the loss to the country will be 



