services, or nearly 52 each; and the Draught sires, 41,108, or 

 over 79 each. 



The stalUons at each local covering station are changed 

 frequently. 



An excellent representative of the stamp of horse produced 

 by judicious crossing is shown in the engraving. This is the 

 portrait of Radziwill, an Anglo-Norman stallion, descended 

 through his sire from the Norfolk Phenomenon. Radziwill, 

 when this portrait was taken in 1900, was five years old; he 

 is a chestnut standing a shade under i5.i, and is the mode 

 ■of the high-class carriage horse. He was shown with his 

 sire Juvigny at the International Show at Paris, and the 

 resemblance between father and son was a striking object- 

 lesson in the success with which judicious mating can produce 

 animals true to type. Radziwill's dam was a small Anglo- 

 Norman mare, but coming of a breed normally big, her foal 

 proved true to his breeding and furnished into a truly grand 

 harness-horse. 



Besides the 3,213 stallions belonging to the State, there 



is a large number in the hands of private owners. Any 



stallion whose services are available to the public must 



be licensed by Government as belonging to one of three 

 classes : — 



(i) "Approved" stallions, which are considered good 

 •enough to improve the breed of horses. These are sub- 

 divided into two classes : Sires which earn over 100 francs (^4) 

 per service form the first class ; these receive no bounty from 

 the State ; the second class consists of sires for whose service 

 100 francs or less is charged by the owner ; these receive an 

 annual premium of from £11 to £80 a year. In 1904 there 

 were 1,479 " Approved " Stallions, viz. : — 



Thoroughbreds, Arabs and Anglo- Arabs ... 306 

 Not Thoroughbreds ... ... ... ... 458 



Draught 715 



1.479 

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