Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-08
ENGLISH-BRED HORSES.
A Noted Breeder Gives Some Very
Interesting Facts,

Interesting Facts.
lCopiright 1889 bu James Gordon Bennett.l
PARIS Sept. 7.-lNew York Herald
Cable-Special to The BEE. AT the horse
show to-day had conversation with an
exhibitor of Demsang horses whose opinion
will be of special interest to Englshmen and
Americans. This is Burdette Coutts, M p,
owner of the Broohfeld stud, near Holly
Lodge, Highgate Said he:
81 have not brought over my best horses,
but | see no reason to feel ashamed of the
ten have on exhibition. You know have
for some years in my Brookfield stud been
making a rather needed departure in horse
breeding This is, think, of general inter-
est, not only from its novelty, but from its
eminent success. At the Royal Agricultural
society's show at Windsor this year, my
horses were awarded over dozen prizes, in
GLIDING the queens gold medal for the best
coaching stations and the queens gold
medal for the best hackney mare.
1 may therefore speak with certain
authority on the subject of breeding
Demisang horses. The trouble in England
has hitherto been that great landed propri-
etors and other capitalists who have engaged
in horse breeding have limited their efforts
almost entirely to producing thoroughbred
are all very we'll as far as they go, but they
do not go nearly far enough Besides these,
England uses and requires an enormous
number of light draft horses, as well as for
military purposes. The breeding of such
horses as these has been entirely neglected,
except in Yorkshire and the eastern coun-
| ties.
"rhere have, however, in the course of the
| last hundred years, come into existence
through the providentIal care of small
| farmers three different breeds of horses
which may properly be considered as thor
oughbreds, or all but such. These breeds
! are the hackney trutter or roadster, the
| Cleveland bay and the Yorkshire
| coach horse. The hackney breed is
| of interest to Americans, because from
| 1t came the horse Bellfounder from which
| again came Rysdyck's famous Hambletouian.
| Hackney horses are of medium size, standing
| about 1872 and are admirably adapted for
| drawing broughams, light victories, phae-
| tons, ETC. The Cleveland Bays and York
shire coach horses are large, standing 16-2 or
| 1863, and are suited for barouche service.
"Now, as l said above, these three breeds
| have been produced only by small farmers
in small section of England, through whose
efforts, however, the breed has been kept
| pure to certain extent Therefore, until
recently, this means of supply has been suf-
ficient, but of late years change has taken
place. Foreign governments have gradually
come to recognize the superior excellence OF
the three English breeds, and the deslrabil-
ity of obtaining some of them for their own
purposes, military and otherwise.
Consequently Austria, Italy, Russia,
France and other countries have
been sending agents to England, who have
every year bought large numbers of those
horses, and so well have these agents carried
out their mandates that 1t was rapidly be-
coming apparent that unless something was
done to stop such wholesale appropria ION
the country would soon be entirely depleted
of it's most useful horses So l resolved tc
do something myself in the line of defend
ing these great English interests, and l thinl
| l have succeeded.
I'm the first place, have laid it down al
a fundamental principle in my breeding
Demisang horses that will never sell IN.
best stallion or more of any given species.
always keep my horses so as to be able Il
produce others equally good. The others
sell, but in this way control the market anC
keep up the standard Of exceileuce in m
own stud"