RUSSIAN CAVALRY. 
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7 He will attend all Brigade Committees for the ad¬ 
mission of Horses, and will sign the Proceedings, as attending 
the Committee, in testimony that he has examined the 
Horses, and is satisfied that they are sound. 
8 He will also attend all Committees assembled to Cast 
Horses of the Brigade to which he is attached, and before 
the assembly of the Annual Casting Committee, he will sub¬ 
mit to the Commanding Officer a Roll of the Horses which 
he thinks ought to be presented to it. 
Approved by His Excellency the Commander in Chief, 
and ordered to be circulated to the Brigades of Horse 
Artillery. 
Adjutant General of the Army. 
Adjutant General’s Office, Head Quarters, Simla; 
June, 1825. 
RUSSIAN CAVALRY. 
The cavalry are well mounted on punchy, well-limbed, 
free-moving horses, most of them bred in Central Russia, and 
some brought from the Crimea and Ukraine. They are plain 
about the head, and rather short-necked; but in texture of 
bone and sinew indicate tolerable breeding. They are of 
very even stature, averaging, I should say at a guess, scarcely 
fifteen hands, and the equality is preserved by a wise rule 
of casting all colts that grow over a prescribed maximum 
standard of fifteen hands one inch. 
With Russia’s resources her cavalry is thus mounted on 
medium-sized troopers, which all experience knows to be the 
right sort for work, and at a price vastly below our English 
or Indian Remounts: 70 rubles, or 11/., being the Govern¬ 
ment figure here for a three-year old ; and the supply is so 
immense that every regiment I have seen musters its 1200 
horses of one colour. 
I have heard the temper of the Russian horses questioned: 
here, from the ferocious determination with which I have 
seen these animals take the collar in getting guns through 
bogs and heavy sand, I should say they are libelled. 
The cavalry, I think, are over-schooled. Passing at a trot, 
the Emperor (of Russia) applied repeated tests of manege , 
which proved them handy, and with which his Majesty 
seemed satisfied : but, to acquire this proficiency, there is a 
deal of haunch-work, and a springing of hind-quarters, which 
