HORSE BREEDING IN THE WAIPA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2992, 17 September 1891, Page 4

HORSE BREEDING IN THE WAIPA.

1 r furnishes food for democratic reflection th.i*; while wo possess in the colonies no human earls, dukes, etc., wo do our best f/> repair the deficiency by naming our equine anil bovine celebrities by these aristocratic titles, and in view of tile present Socialistic tendencies, it. may shortly become a question for consideration, whether n legal stop should not be put to tins practice as likely to cause undue respect to lie paid to old and worn nut institution-'. These thoughts oceuiTedto your correspondent when recently visiting Lord (Jlyile, t.'.ie draught stallion lately imported from the South by Mr l'Ved Perkins. Fred always bad a. weakness for horses -that is, good ones. The gentleman under notice (linean the horse, not Fred) may be interviewed at any time, in 0110 of Air Liminor's fertile paddocks neat Whatawhata, Hera hi ■ lordship runs at large, tpiiet and contented, as big fat fellows generally are. -Some distance away, the horse looks small, hut upon getting along Milo, as the, boatmen say, his great, proportion < are fully shown, the dark bay colour, with Mark p iin' being a plea.vmt change a ir, l-the waslud out yellows, with while legs, which have .always seemed to ho inseparable from the Clydesdale It i< not too much to say that Air Perkins horse is about the best vet brought, into the \V aipa, and his owner fl'-'-erv- 1 .-'support lor his e.atei prist: in pi---curing him. Mated vvPh .suitable marfs, lead Clyde will get go id stock alike creditable to the district and profitable to the breeder. The time his gone past when breHing secoiid rate horses, no matter of what ci.is.-, will piv, and agriculturists are. fa .t reuli iu r .;,it. Hut whatever our ideas or lie irco may b", it appears to be left to in dividual enterpi i -;e I" iiitioducu thu highel L-s stallions required. Tiiis involves a large amount nf risi; and experte", and claims r.:co(fuitinu in the shape of support from the. public. lam pleas 'd to say, m the case :>f Air Perkins and othtr gentlemen who have lately introduced good stocks, that this is being Ireefy given. —(Whalawhata Correspondent,)