THE LATE WALKING SHOW.
(to thb eoitob of the times) Sib, — As I take some interest in the breeding of stock, I venture to make a few remarks on the late walking show. I was sorry, but hardly surprised, to find that it called forth so little interest amongst either town or country visitors. I think it is a mistake having no prize at all, and at the same time also think it a greater mistake to give a prize where it is not deserved. I What I would suggest next year would be to again do as was done two years since, viz., offer a good premium in order to induce good horses to come down from the Northern district, or to be imported from the other Colonies. I would, however, offer a premium to both classes of sires, draught acd thoroughbred ; the latter I am sure all who know anything about it, er have ever taken the trouble to procure and read the Stud Book, will admit is a very scarce article in Southland, and particularly so at the late show. For my part I could onlj see one " thoroughbred." In its account of the late show, your contemporary remarks that " the eight horses were so thoroughly ' individualized,' bo distinctive in breed, that scarcely any two of them could show in the same class in any yard where very nice discrimination was exercised in classification." There could bo only one way to class them, viz., 1 thoroughbred, 1 roadster, and 3 mongrels, for any horse without a pure pedigree is a mongrel, and has no business to be called a thoroughbred, or to obtain a prize in a class to which he cannot claim to belong. These remarks are not made for the purpose of finding fault with those who, year after year, take the trouble to get up our shows— far from it, but merely to express an opinion held by a great number of those most interested in the success of the undertaking, viz., breeders. If the public will support the promoters of our shows as they ought to do (country settlers especially); so as to enable good prizes to be given by them in order to induce good stock to be brought among us, in the course of a very few years our show yard will present a very different appearance to what it did on Saturday last. We shall then be able not only to obtain a good cart horse, but also what can now hardly be got for love or money — a good, well-bred upstanding hack. — I am, &c, Bbeedeb. Oct. 16, 1873.
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Southland Times, Issue 1809, 21 October 1873, Page 3
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440THE LATE WALKING SHOW. Southland Times, Issue 1809, 21 October 1873, Page 3
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