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Horse-lreeding for Profit. 
But these horses which we have exported have been Thorough- 
bred stock, Hackney, Coaching, Cleveland, Shire stallions and 
mares, and also a few hunters, whilst the general carriage-horse we 
have had to import by thousands, after furnishing the foreigner 
with our stallions and mares to supply our demand. 
Leaving out Ireland, whence a large proportion of the 
carriage-horses are di'awn, we imported, in 1890, 19,280 horses, 
of which 12,000 were from Germany, 2,480 were from Denmark, 
and 1,575 from Holland. 
Every dealer, every job-master, eveiy gentleman who drives 
a pair of carriage-horses, is in a constant condition of looking 
out for good horses and match pairs, and the lucky possessor of 
the right article can almost name his own price. 
In 1890 our import of 19,286 horses from abroad was valued 
at 335,906L Why should not this money go into the pockets 
of the English farmer ? It is his own fault that it does not. 
I have taken the trouble to find out how the great London 
job-masters managed to find carriage-horses, as for their business 
they must have really good, sound, and enduring ones, and what 
were the prices they paid. Here are the figures given me by 
four of the best and largest job-masters. I am precluded from 
giving their names without their sanction, and therefore will 
call them A, B, C, D. 
A. & Co. say : — 
Aa to the proportion of carriage- horses that are purchased abroad and in 
Great Britain, we think about a third may be English and Irish — Irish 
much preponderating in number over English ; we should think the re- 
maining two-thirds come from abroad. The price is about the .same every- 
where — four- and live-year-olds from ICO/, to 150/. each, average price very 
nearly ICO/. 
B. & Co. say : — 
We have our agents in Ireland, in Yorkshire, Norfolk, North Britain, and 
Devon and Cornwall, who keep us supplied with the colts we buy. All are 
unbroken, mostly three years old. The average price 100/. to 120/., 
according to size and quality. Some seven years ago we imported a good 
few Americans, but they did not quite do, and the price was about the same 
at home as our own horses. 
Nearly all the “ dealers’ ” horses are foreign, from all countries, but what 
their selling value here in London is, compared with ours, we cannot say. 
iMany fetch very high figures, but they are not job-masters’ horses — for oiir 
purpose they must be able to work and wear. 
C. says: — 
No foreign horses — 50 per cent, of Lis are English, 40 per cent. Irish, 
and 10 per cent. .A.merican— and the average price for four-year-old colts, 
76/. in Ireland and England, and 05/. for Americans in America. 
