A golden opportunity of seeing the stamp of horse each 

 Government of Europe is striving to produce for military 

 purposes occurred in September, 1900, in the International 

 Horse Show held at Paris, when the French Government 

 •spent upwards of ^"50,000 in prizes, on erecting suitable 

 buildings, &c., for the show, which lasted only one week. 

 There were collected horses of numerous and varied strains 

 from all parts of France, from Germany, Hungary, Austria, 

 Russia and Turkey. So excellent an opportunity for comparing 

 a large number of representative examples of different breeds 

 is unlikely to recur in our time, and it is a thousand pities 

 that the War Office authorities did not send one or two 

 competent men to profit by the wonderful object-lesson there 

 provided. 



The Army horses 01 various nations exhibited at the 

 Paris Show were shown mounted. To demonstrate the 

 results of the practice of breeding for the various classes of 

 work horses are required to perform, a selection of sizeable 

 stallions and mares was first paraded, and these were followed 

 into the ring by a troop of heavy cavalry mounted on the 

 produce of these stallions and mares. Then we were 

 shown stallions and mares of medium size, and with them a 

 detachment of cavalry mounted on their progeny. .Vfter 

 these came stallions and mares more highly bred, followed 

 again by a troop of light cavalry mouated on their progeny. 

 Nothing more interesting and more instructive could have 

 been devised. 



It is worth while glancing briefly at the systems prevail- 

 ing in France, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Italy, Turkey 

 and Russia. The reader will observe that the object of 

 each Government being to foster and encourage the breeding 

 of horses of classes most useful to the people of the country, 

 there is in every case considerable variety of breed in the 

 pubhc studs, and that the owner of a mare may exercise his 

 own judgment in selection of a sire. 



