Horse-breeding in England and India - and army horses abroad (1906) (14743797726)

Identifier: horsebreedingi00gilb (find matches)
Title: Horse-breeding in England and India : and army horses abroad
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Gilbey, Walter, Sir, 1st Bart., 1831-1914 Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Subjects: Horses Horses CHR 1906 PRO Pearson, Leonard (bookplate) (donor)
Publisher: London : Vinton & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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s that experience has taught theStud authorities to make provision for service by Half-bredsof five times as many mares as are sent to the Thoroughbredor Anglo-Arab. There is no heavy draught stallion at Lesparre; thereason is to be found in the fact that oxen are very generallyused for cart and plough in this district, and heavy draughthorses therefore are not bred. If we turn to the FinistereDepartment of Brittany, where post horses are bred, weshall find the same principle in operation ; there stand stallionsof a stamp calculated to get the sturdy blocky horses forwhich the district is noted, and which have been graded upfrom imported Hackney sires. In France, during the year 1904, there were 3,213stallions belonging to the State in actucil -ivork; these covered175,956 mares. Looking more closely into the returns ofservice, we find that in the Thoroughbred class (English,Arab, and Anglo-Arab), 583 stallions performed 25,577services, or about 44 each; the Half-bred class, 109,271 26
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services, or nearly 52 each; and the Draught sires, 41,108, orover 79 each. The stalHons at each local covering station are changedfrequently. An excellent representative of the stamp of horse producedby judicious crossing is shown in the engraving. This is theportrait of Radziwill, an Anglo-Norman stallion, descendedthrough his sire from the Norfolk Phenomenon. Radziwill,when this portrait was taken in 1900, was five years old; heis a chestnut standing a shade under 16. i, and is the modeof the high-class carriage horse. He was shown with hissire Juvigny at the International Show at Paris, and theresemblance between father and son was a striking object-lesson in the success with which judicious mating can produceanimals true to type. Radziwills dam was a small Anglo-Norman mare, but coming of a breed normally big, her foalproved true to his breeding and furnished into a truly grandharness-horse. Besides the 3,213 stallions belonging to the State, there is a large number in the hands