fact that we were possessed of the true bred sires and dams 

 which cannot be equalled in any other country." The 

 statement is as true now as it was twenty-two years ago. 



In addition to their annual purchases of English mares, 

 foreign breeders have, since about 1830, been our best 

 customers for Hackney stallions. Foreign stud masters in 

 the great horse-rearing districts can now show us distinct 

 a.nd well-marked breeds of useful horses which they have 

 gradually produced by judiciously mating the mares they 

 have bought from us. Had those mares been retained in 

 England it is not likely that they would have benefited the 

 nation ; they would, in all probability, have been put to 

 Thoroughbred stallions, with the results described by Lord 

 Cathcart.* 



The point on which particular stress must be laid is 

 that, owing to the method of breeding on the Continent, the 

 foreigners' misfits are unlike ours. The foreigner may — he 

 necessarily often does — fail to produce a youngster that will 

 sell in the most remunerative market, i.e., as a carriage- 

 horse ; but the misfit is not a weed, it is useful for general 

 purposes. 



Horses Wanted for the Army 



Since the South African War, the War Office authorities 

 have been bombarded with schemes and suggestions— good, 

 bad, and impossible — for increasing the home-bred supply of 

 Remounts. 



It is certain that there will be an enormous demand in the 

 future for horses both large and small for military purposes. 



In the year igoo a large increase was made in one arm 

 which involves a large increase in the number of horses which 

 will be needed. Fifty-four new batteries of Artillery have been 

 raised ; on a peace footing each of these requires 3S horses, 



* Hal f -Bred Horses for Field and Road : Their Breeding and Management, 

 by Earl Cathcart, in the Journal of the Koyal Agricultural Society of 

 England. 1883. 



