THE HORSE RETURNS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 37, 12 August 1930, Page 6

THE HORSE RETURNS

BIDING EfCEBASINGLY POPULAR

The increase in the number of horsemen and horsewomen is a remarkable example of the turn of the cycle. A few years ago almost everybody who could afford it held motoring to be the ono and only method of securing recreation, and the horse seemed doomed to zoological exhibition. But motoring lacks the phyf sical advantages which the horse has in such a marked degree. The heavy brigade became heavier still—until medical opinion changed once again and the finest prescription for health ever bestowed upon mankind began to be recommended once again. No more satisfactory trend can be imagined; for we are a nation of horselovers, and our knowledge of the noble quadruped is exemplified by all classes of the community, comments ah English exchange. Amongst those whose choice of parents has been satisfactory, there is a growing appreciation of horse-mastery. The young riders of to-day are not content merely to sit a horse, gallop it, and jump, it. They want to know how to * make" a horse and how to look after it in health arid sickness. This enthusiasm augurs well for the future of horse-breed-ing in this country—a subject which' is of close interest to the Racecourse Betting Control Board in view of the decision to devote a considerable proportion of the surplus to be derived from operating the totalisator to the encouragement of horsebreeding. In this definition are included all kinds of useful horses from the child's pony to the shire, from the hackney to the heavy draught horse, from the polo pony to tne. racing thoroughbred. The growing generation will carry on the traditions of horsemanship made famous by the great iorsemen and fine horsewomen of those ganwations which knew not the motorcV, and nnrded the horse as the finest o? all mankind's companions.