The Government might profitably send to inspect and 

 report on the great studs of France, Germany, Hungary, 

 Russia and other countries. 



Such inspections may have been made officially, but the 

 Reports have not been made accessible to the breeders of this 

 country. It goes without saying that the choice of agents to 

 make such inspections and reports must be a matter of great 

 difficulty. The agent must be a man possessed of practical 

 experience in horse-breeding, and not in breeding only one 

 class of horse. The man who has devoted himself exclusively 

 to the production of one class of horse, whether the race-horse 

 or the hunter, cannot rid himself of the prejudices he has 

 necessarily formed in the course of his experience as a breeder 

 of race-horses or hunters — he cannot put aside his bias in favour 

 of a horse suitable for sport. Few breeders devote themselves 

 to the production of several classes of horse ; and the successful 

 men among these few are naturally disinclined to leave their 

 business for a prolonged tour through the horse-breeding 

 districts of Europe. 



Sizeable Harness Horses 



It is impossible to deny that there is in the United 

 Kingdom a great want of sizeable harness horses ; and this is 

 a want which, in the interests of national defence, we should 

 be able to satisfy from our own breeding grounds. We 

 cannot do it. 



I stated, in my address twenty-two years ago, that English 

 horses suitable for match pairs — square made, sizeable and 

 having courage and action — could then be scarcely obtained ; 

 and the statement is hardly less true to-day. I also stated that 

 it was only necessary to visit the yards of our metropolitan 

 and country dealers to discover how difficult and costly a 

 matter it was then to find a London brougham-horse or a 

 match pair from 15.3 to 16.2 hands in height. A similar 

 mission might be undertaken to-day with the certainty of 

 encountering much the same difficulty. 



