is) 
upon the subject of herbage, on the im- 
portance of providing fresh and zntainted 
pastures, or on the evil results of over- 
stocking 
The only horse-breeder of former days 
who appears to have understood the im- 
portance of attention to grazing was a 
Mr. E. Corbet,* of whose methods of rearing 
race-horses the Rev. Walter Davies says tT :— 
‘He had five paddocks enclosed with 
stone walls, each paddock containing a 
shed and traversed by a stream of water. 
These paddocks are spring fed with 
sheep, and afterwards afford early grass 
of a better quality for the young horses. 
When they have nearly grazed the first 
piece they are turned into the second, and 
are succeeded by neat cattle, and these 
again by sheep. By this means no tufts 
of any kinds of grass are left, the one 
species of animal relishing the leavings of 
the other” 
*The gentleman referred to was evidently Mr. 
Edward Corbet, a West-country sportsman, who ran 
horses at the Chester, Ludlow, Bridgnorth and 
other meetings about the period 1790-1805. He 
owned animals sired by Dungannon, Young Eclipse 
and other famous sires of the time. I have not been 
able to trace relationship between this gentleman and 
the famous Master of Hounds, but it seems highly 
probable that they were related 
1 General View of Agriculture in North Wales (1813) 
