Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-11-12

opnion but then he Jealous county gentleman
ed providing the Suffolk breeders with sound and useful stations
Fo than sixty years have had great experience in
breeding all horses and have taken great
enduring qualities At time my life bred great many
thoroughbred horses believe that horses have deerorated
late years
Queens Plates originally given horses carry heavy
weights and long distances In the last century, and the
beginning this century, there great many valuable horses
three miles without the slightest trouble
injury any kind but that description animal
My belief that there horses England that
could the Beacon a miles rong and 1873 yad)
Newmarket within eight minutes which younger days
O constantly done.
hardly persuade gentlemen miles,
they large running short their
ocncr. afraid that is question winning
money than used to be eighty years ago. when there
number persons who took great pride breeding
different stamp dare that Goodwood for the last years
there have been than three horses the Queens
Plates and these have walked half the distance.
The evidence General Peel which
opinion of Admiral ROus the melancholy orebodngs of the
perhaps presents picture present
condition of the British boodhose General Peel had had fifty
years experience breeder horses having conjunction with
his brother Mr. Edmund Peel bred his first animal in 1921 fy
which second to the Earl of Jerseys Cobweb the Oaks in
1924 He considered that quite good
any period but that there bad bred pro-
portion the total number consequence the whole system
breeding being altered
Formerly the propretors
them They had their brood Mares their paddocks they
carefully selected that would each they kept
the produce entirely for their racing At that time very
difficult purchase yeang nncent OF the horses bred
for sale When years ago very large prices given
sales by auCton) yeag the supply quickly followed the
mand Everybody took breeding, stud sales organised
all the country More horses bred here nearly
thoroughbred season. ones
because breeders for sale all their the stations they
purchase hire, whether not
1.-The opinion sustained by the fact that although there
very private compared with public breeders almost all great
stakes by animals bred by private breedcrs.'
But the object this chapter discuss racing
drawbacks and PHYSICAL which other
bodily diseases civscd life but rapid
hand how the love country sports how the love riding
ing wagering Matches finally the
gambling spirit Gin which in form all civsed and cmciscc
ndugc horc-racng has less than century laid the
foundation the finest breed horses in the world Without the
the English boodhoc would
must take good truly English
institutions AT it quite certain that the ole
style four mile heavy weights impossible repro
duce long whist good society," go back from iron stcandrver
war-shps the wooden sailing gatcs which Admiral Rous
ntey PREFERRED admiral strictly every
question except that which his clients Gin the Roman sensc
betting fraternity thrive Large vested interests have been
and supported by the modern system of infant horses short dis
all the chances stakes thousands wagers
Of thousands Whether promotes breeding sound and
blood-horses quite another question 4.4 .
BLOOD-HORsE
"Thc following extracts wrtcrs-onc
Mr. Digby Collins educated we'll accomplished
horscman the other Mr. Copperthwaite specimen person
with literary cultivation pretenons whose life devoted
perhaps give idea what racng-mcn like
racc-hOrsc.
Coppcrthwate begins by saying that the ugies
horses best shaped when properly looked The
shaped horses for running purposes frequently the handsome
1t would hardly be going far add that they aremOst nvar
iaby very The greatest failures agcncral very hand
some, and only fit for Rotten Row.
Size and substance are Indispensable mot tall narrow