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produced for general use, in which strength and endurance are 
more invariably united.” 
These are .the recorded opinions of M. de Hochstetter, the su¬ 
perintendent of the Prussian studs, and of the Count de Veltheim, 
well known for his writings on the horse.— Valeant quantum 
valere possunt. 
Purchases of English thorough-bred Horses for 
THE German Studs. 
The German papers announce that fifty stallions, mares, colts, 
and fillies, were landed at Hamburg on the 31st of last October, 
having been purchased in England for the German studs by M. 
G. Lichtwald; among them are thirty-two horses of pure blood, 
including Olympus by Blacklock, Flare-up by Famplighter, 
Ameshury by Phantom, Bacchus by Whalebone, Gilder by Ve¬ 
locipede, The Shah by Sultan, Cornet by Emilius, Christal by 
Chateaux Margaux, Sosegay by Emilius, Agnes by Bizarre, 
Lady Blanche by Bobadil, &c. &c. 
It may be seen by these purchases, made by the governments, 
the breeders, and even by the rich speculators of continental 
Europe, what importance they are placing on the amelioration of 
the breed of horses, and how unanimous they are in the means 
which they adopt for this purpose. The number of English horses 
imported on the continent during the last ten years almost exceeds 
belief; and during the latter part of this period, the undisguised 
object has been, the improvement of the native breeds. 
The foreign journalist, from whom we extract this adds, 
with great naivete —we thank him for the hint, and a most im¬ 
portant one it is, but not altogether in the sense in which he 
means it—“ the English do well in profiting by the circumstances 
of the present hour; for a very short time only will elapse before 
every continental state will possess, and to as great an extent as 
it could wish, the elements of the improvement of their respective 
breeds.” 
The French Studs. 
The following account of the distribution of the French 
thorough-bred covering stallions, and some of the breeding mares, 
through the studs in various parts of France during the jiresent 
spring, may not be uninteresting. The reader will acknowledge 
many an old acquaintance ; it will also be seen to what extent 
the French government is identifying itself with the improvement 
of the breed of horses. It is a noble example, and, so far as the 
difference in the political constitution of the two states will 
admit, deserves to be followed. 
