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Horse-breeding for Frojii. 
work, and thereby alone more than pay for their keep. With 
mares like this he must succeed, for — 
(i.) If he uses a sound Thorovghhred stallion, ivlth action, he 
will get one of three things : — 
(1) A grand carriage-horse. 
(2) A valuable hunter. 
(3) At worst a trooper. 
(ii.) If he uses a “ stepping ” IFuchiey stallion, provided he 
has quality and size enough, he will get — 
A very excellent carriage-horse, with high action, but 
generally slightly inferior in outline, as he runs 
the risk of getting the short Hackney quarter, low- 
set tail, and short neck. 
(iii.) If he uses a high-quality Coaching stallion with action, 
he may turn out the most magnificent match pairs of bays. 
If I allowed myself to put aside the question of the utility of 
the bi'ood-mare on the farm, I should say to breed the ideal 
cai’riage-horse take a Yorkshire coaching mare of the elegant 
stamp of Candidate' s “ get ” and use a sire as near Mr. Burdett- 
Coutts’s Sidtan in shape and action as possible.' 
No doubt there are other ways of breeding carriage-horses. 
There is the plan of putting big Hackney stallions to Thorough- 
bred mares, but this and similar methods are hardly suitable to the 
farm. However, I may quote what the Earl of Charlemont 
(who was at the time perhaps the greatest horse-breeder in 
Ireland) said in 1873 before the Lords’ Committee on Horses, 
viz. : that all breeds paid him except Thoroughbreds. But 
“ harness-horses paid him better than any other.” He had bred 
his best by a Norfolk trotter Broad Arroic, off hunter mares ; 
adding, “ I am very particular as to the quality of my mares.” 
Broad Arrow w^as a common looking but hard and very 
active horse. When asked how he was bred. Lord Charlemont 
said, “ I never asked about his pedigi'ee, because my theory of 
breeding is to judge by the stock a horse produces.’’ 
Befcra leaving the half-bred, I would say a word about army 
remounts. For these there is always a home and a foreign 
demand, but the profit to the breeder is not a tempting one, for 
the prices run about 40Z. for four-year-olds and the French prices 
about 45/. If the Government want good sound troopers, fit to 
carry 17 to 20 stones, they must give considerably more money 
for them, as at present prices there is an exceedingly small 
margin for the farmer when the risks of barren mares and 
i.e , — breed Yorkshire Coach Horses. 
