BREEDING OF HUNTERS AND HACKS. 
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leaf, or on the peduncles of the flowers, according to the part 
of the tree selected by a particular species, of which a great 
many infest the oak.— Gardeners’’ CJironlele* 
ON THE BKEEDING OF HUNTERS AND HACKS. 
13y Henry Corbet. 
[From the New Fart of the ^ Bath and West of England Societg^s 
Journal!) 
[Continuedfromp. ^^2.) 
We must, then, insist on the conditions as advertised by 
this Society for ^'a thorough-bred stallion to get hunters and 
hacks,as the main principle to go on. Such an animal, 
as 1 have already intimated, need by no manner of means 
have been a famous racehorse—a fact that of itself would go 
to place him beyond our limit, at the same time that it is 
anything but an indispensable item in his qualifications.. 
The chief things we have here to look for are true symmetry, 
good action, a staying pedigree, and freedom from hereditary 
taint. A deep frame, a round barrel, on a short, wiry leg; a 
sensible rather than a pretty head, a well-laid shoulder, a 
good back, and plenty of bone. Never mind if his powerful 
quarters do droop a bit, so that they run down into big, clean 
hocks and thighs; and do not care to dwell too much over 
an accidental blemish, or even a fired fore-leg, so that the 
leg itself is of the riglit shape and calibre. Above all, do not 
mistake mere beef for power, and in the thorough-bred horse, 
over all others, go for wire, muscle, and breeding, in prefer¬ 
ence to what may look like more substantial qualities. In 
this respect some of the authorities of the show-yard, who 
are called upon to decide over sheep, pigs, chaff-cutters, and 
hunter-stallions, still require a little tutoring. In the what 
to avoid’’ we must guard against soft, flashy strains of blood 
that are of no value beyond the T.Y.C., and hereditary in¬ 
firmities of all kinds. Bad eyes, bad wind, bad hocks, and 
suspicious ring-bone-looking fetlocks are all very bad things 
in a stallion, the more especially if you can trace them. A 
horse maybe blind from accident or ill-treatment, and one of 
our most eminent veterinarians has assured me that he did 
not think there were half a dozen stallions in England that 
were not roarers. The injudicious manner, however, in which 
