On Breeding Roadsters

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 143, 19 May 1885, Page 3

On Breeding Roadsters

♦ " Flaneur" in the Herald makes the follewing very sensible remarka, whieh contain advice whieh may be profitably followed by every farmer in the District. If farmers with atout well-knit mares having a good cress or two ef bloed ia their veins would pat them to such aires as we have a fair pick of here, aad aim at breeding erot_ country nags, instead of a lot of weeds from so- called thoroughbred mares that cannot carry anything heavier tban a stable boy of the smallest pattern, t think: ; it would . pay them hotter, as food riding backs equal to Ifl atone art Mot UW picked np at any price withont a lot of trouble and bargaining. Weeds can be had by hundreds at front ten shillings a leg I , It is jnst, as easy to brood good saleable horses as nondescripts, if people' will only take a little trouble, and secure proper parent stock to start on ; it is no use trying to get .figs from tkistles, sq :to .speak, and it would be a step in the right direction to make pigs Ameat of a lot of rooks of mares in this district that are yearly breeding miserable foals to- some cheap and unsound broken down blood horse, that never had a constitution that would stand a proper strain, or legs that would 'stand a week's hard work. Far better to cross light healthy cait mares with a sound good eonstittttipned thoroughbred horse, ani get a foal that will carry a. man. when it is old enough -tf be broken in, and put in tbe market for* sale. Such animals always sell weMr-and- bring from £20 to £35, weeds. *s J ; said before, can be bought fer^ few'shiUihga a leg, and are to* st the. f^o^jy. yy, 'y..'i. y.y