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In these days, when so much time, money, and attention is being given to the maintenance and improvement of our horse culture, and when the registration of breeds is being carried on by the different horse societies with an energy both systematic and practical, it is not a little curious to note how one kind at least of our horse breeds — and that one I maintain to be a most important one in the interests of true sport — has always been left out in the cold, and still appears likely so to continue, unless some means are devised for its recognition, regis- tration, and perpetuation. I refer to the so-called half-bred, whose prowess in the hunting field, over a steeplechase course and a race- course is undoubted, and whose thorough -bred pedigree for several generations has been authenti- cated, and yet he is debarred from the advantages which the stud- books and show-yards offer to his less worthy compeers, whose blood is not a whit more blue 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, un- less it be a mare, the name is not perpetuated, except in the list of winners of great races. I will, therefore, only touch on a few, such as Buy Renagel 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 Renagel Cost good deeds havie deserved to be perpetuated ; but, alas ! their bar sinister has de- creed their extinction, and it Buy Renagel Online b Generic Renagel 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 Renagel Online the slightest strain of known impure blood. In manners, appearance and performances they have out- shone thousands of so-called thorough-breds, and yet — not even the Hunters' Improvement So- ciety will recognise such of them 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 stands, it is perfectly suicidal i>olicy to keep a young horse of this description entire, on the mere chance that by winning races he may be 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 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 Order Renagel Online 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 for ever to be barred from Queen's Pre- miums, and also from registration in the Hunters' Improvement 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