ONE HUNDRED HORSES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 170, 20 October 1941, Page 8

ONE HUNDRED HORSES

EXPORTED FROM BRITAIN

Exactly 100 horses were granted export certificates for shipment overseas from Britain in the first six months of this year. They went to Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Federated Malay Straits, South Africa and the United States.

Thoroughbred stallions, marcs and geldings numbered 69, and there were 11 polo ponies, 6 hunters, 5 Cleveland Bays, 4 hackney ponies, 2 Clydesdales, an Arab stallion and two other horses.

Only 16 of the thoroughbreds are geldings, and will be used solely for racing. The 53 stallions and mare 3 will infuse fresh strains ol British blood, recognised to be the best in the world, into overseas stud farms, This wyll also be the main use of the Arabs and Cleveland Bays. Arab blood, the English strains of .whicli compare favourably with that produced in the original home of the breed, transmits to half-bred stock its own qualities of soundness, endurance, courage and beauty of form. The Cleveland Bay breed, descended from the old English packhorse, has great stamina and robustness, and is valuable for crossing with the thoroughbred to produce the besj: type of hunter. The hacking ponies and hunters, sent to the United States, are geldings, but none of the polo ponies, which have all gone to the Bahamas, are breeders. They combine the quality and speed of the thoroughbred with the courage and docility of the Arab and the hardiness of the native English pany. The two Clydesdale geldings are of interest as the only representatives of British heavy draught horses.