Related article: than his. The list of really good horses that have hitherto failed to find a place in the Stud Book is a long one, and to make it a correct one would entail great research, because unhappily, Aralen Price un- less it be a mare, the name is Chloroquine Aralen not perpetuated, except in the list of winners of great races. I will, therefore, only touch on a few, such as Mrs. Taft (winner of the Cesarewitch), Hesperithusa, from whom came Tib, Curzon, The Colonel, New Oswestry, St. Galmier, and Cloister — not to mention many notable North- country and Irish horses, whose blood as well as good deeds have deserved to be perpetuated ; but, alas ! their bar sinister has de- creed their extinction, and it is little less than wonderful that they should continue to crop up on racecourses at* all, and then only from the dam's side. 1899-] A PLEA FOR HALF-BRED SIRES. 341 In all the half - bred horses above enumerated there has not been for the last fifty years the slightest strain of known impure blood. In manners, appearance and performances they have out- shone thousands of Order Aralen Online so-called thorough-breds, and yet — not even the Hunters' Improvement So- ciety will recognise such of them Purchase Aralen as are entire as worthy to become sires, unless they can show a winning record, and even then they are ineligible for Queen's Premiums. Consequently, as the matter now Buy Aralen Online stands, it is perfectly suicidal policy to keep a young horse of this description entire, on the mere chance that by winning races he may be Aralen Online even- tually qualified for registration as a hunter sire. There are no prizes open to him in horse shows— no class for him anywhere after his yearling days. At the present time I have in my possession a yearling colt of this nondescript race. What am I to do with him ? His ancestry on his dam's side has been handed down Aralen Cost from father to son on one and the same farm for at least 100 years ! I can trace his blood distinctly back without a flaw to the year 18 14, and yet, beautiful colt that he is, what reward, what hope have I in view, if I refrain from adding him to the list, although well knowing that he is in every way more worthy to become a country stallion than one half the horses that gain Queen's Premiums. This seems tall talk, and yet your readers can trust me for verity on such a subject, or I should not for so many years have enjoyed the privi- lege of writing in your columns. What I wish to put forward here as a crucial question is, that supposing, as we must take it, that the ban of the general Stud Book is to be perpetual on such horses as those I have de- scribed, are they still also Aralen Tablets for ever to be barred from Queen's Pre- miums, and also from registration in the Hunters' Improvement Purchase Aralen Online Stud Book ? Because, if so, a manifest injustice will be done to genuine hunter blood and hunter breeding throughout Great Britain. Surely this is a subject that might well occupy the attention of the Royal Commission on Horse-breeding, the Royal Agri- cultural Society, the Bath and West of England Society, and Order Aralen the other leading Agricultural So- cieties, as well as the Hunters' Improvement Society; and the outcome of such opinions must greatly assist in solving it. We may be told that we are lowering, or trying to lower, the standard of our hunter blood. There is no greater stickler for high blood in hunters than " Borderer," but he makes bold to assert in reply to this that hunter blood will be enriched and ennobled by the admission of such sires as un- doubtedly would thus come to the front, if they had fair play. What a loss to the hunter class was that dual winner of the Grand National, The Colonel, sent abroad ignominiously on account of his half-bred pedigree. If the truth must be told, a great deal of this so-called half-bred blood is traceable to the encouragement given in the first half of this century to horses to run in races as half-breds. Cups and money were then given by Members of Parliament and other local mag- nates ostensibly to encourage farmers in breeding good horses, and the condition was made that they should not be thorough-bred. Naturally keen competition brought about the exclusion from the Stud Book of many a dark mare, smuggled from a training stable and bred from. You have 34* BAILY S MAGAZINE [MAY only to read the excellent articles of an " Old Forester " in the early numbers of The Sporting Magazine from 1819 to 1825 to be assured of this, or to peruse the Racing Calendars from that time until i860, to prove these facts. Such races Buy Cheap Aralen as Lord Forester's Plate at Wenlock, which survived up to a dozen or so years back, and the Debdale Stakes at Warwick, the Billesdon Coplow Stakes at Crox- ton Park, the Severn Bank Stakes at Worcester, and the Oakley Park Stakes at Ludlow, were all for half-bred horses only, and were as eagerly sought after from a local point of view as the Queen's Vase at Ascot is now from a purely racing man's aspect. I venture to think that this question has become acute, ow- ing to the mode, which is now so general, of inbreeding our racehorses, and of forcing them in their early youth — the result being the production of speed rather than bone and stamina. This, your readers will agree with me, I am sure, is Aralen Phosphate not conducive to the production of hunters, or of really good Buy Aralen riding horses, and how are we to remedy it, unless by the greater infusion on the sire's side of blood such as I have attempted to describe ? Blood that has shown itself of value over a country and on the flat, and has survived from its early years of encouragement to a period of practical Boycott, and may yet be preserved to us through valuable sources, if action is taken at once. I have been much interested lately in reading some articles by Count Veltheim on the origin of the English thorough-bred, written as far back as 1825. The Count showed a thorough insight into his subject, and many of his re- narks come home to us to-day