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breeding HORSES. 
improvement. As to breeding horses for the remount of 
cavalry, those governments* who have attempted this, have 
not been equally successful as Great Britain and Ireland 
have hitherto been, in providing horses by commercial enter- 
prise only. It is requisite that breeders who intend to 
breed horses for domestic use, from among which horses for 
the army are selected, should pay less attention to pedigree 
and more to form and action of the stallions they use, whether 
these are our own thorough-bred horses, or Turkish or 
Arabian horses that may be imported ; for I have no objection 
to either, as long as breeders attend to the former advice. 
The newspapers informed us Captain Nolan had gone to 
Turkey to purchase horses for the cavalry, and if there are 
any left at the close of the w^ar, selections could be made by 
him of horses of high caste , form , and action adapted to get 
cavalry horses j and if the qualities of the produce are to be 
put to the test, let it not be as racers for which they certainly 
are not qualified, but as cavalry horses, let it be a Tartar race 
w hich I warrant will try if they have any bottom, the subject 
of complaint. But w hile, as may be seen by Captain Rous’s 
statistics, half the horses bred are not racers, are unfit, and 
4eft for domestic uses, though had they not been bred for the 
former, they would not have been for the latter, it is best to let 
these racing matters remain as at present. It is admitted 
they produce large horses, and these are required as stallions 
for heavy cavalry horses, and speed more than ever. Why 
grumble then ? we shall not get this if the system of breeding 
and racing is changed. Try experiments, but let these be 
isolated ones, so as to be able to judge correctly as to the 
results, which cannot be done by mixing with turf matters, 
when for the army only horses are w r anted. 
To carry out this, there are Royal forests, in the vicinity of 
which, Arabian stallions might be used, or w 7 hat w r ould be 
better, to form a home stud, and use the produce as 
stallions. 
The lands of Hissar Ferozeh, the hunting residence of Shah 
Feroze, w r as given up for the Hissar stud, where there w ere 
50 English and Arab mares, tw r o English thorough-bred, and 
two Arabian stallions, the produce have been used as 
stallions, after selection, in the province of Dehli, vide 
“ Register.” 
* Vide No. 59, ‘ Veterinarian,’ for November, 1852. 
