FOR MILITARY USE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1931, Page 6

FOR MILITARY USE

BREEDING OF HORSES

''JAauoe spends over £100,000 in subsidising .horse breeding.' iGermany spends, and incidentally loses, vast sums yearly in the'iipkeep of studs in East Piussia. But why? Because these nations recognise that when the time comes, as it1 surely 1 will come, they must be prepared with their full o,uota of horses, and for this reason they are prepared to throw thousands into' the .inelting, pot.' This is *an extract' from an article that appeared in' thxr'TField" o£ a recent date. At the .close of tlie World War there was a wide belief that the use of horses in military, affairs had practically come to an end, but it is pleasing to Australian breeders to know -that such is not the case in India. Early this month a steamer left Melbourne with a full complement of 709 horses, most of them specially selected cavalry remounts and gunners. Among thobe shipped was a fine charger to the order of Sir Philip Chctwodo, com-mander-in-chief in India, and Mr. R. M'Kenna's 'picked lot ot 200 included ,i number of thoroughbreds by Blairmount and other well-known sires. It is fortythree years since Mr.- M'Kenna trained Chicago, winner of .the Oaulfiold Cup, but the .veteran is .still-as active as many men "twenty years his junior. Among other famoiis performers shipped to India by Mr. M'Konna were Fitz-Grafton (winner of two Viceroy's Cups) and Great Scot (an. Australian Cup .winner who also won tw.o 'Viceroy's Cupb)j but -in recent yeais very' few. racehorses,have been exported to India. I P.etformers of any class ran be I- purchased more favourably in England I and Ireland than -in Australia.