Horse-breeding.
It cannot be too clearly impressed upon the minds of all interested in the question of horse-breeding, both for military and general purposes (says the Chief Government Veterinarian in his annual report), that there is far too great a proportion of unsound horses in the colony. The time is ripe for legislation being brought to bear on the matter, for it is little less than a scandal that so many stallions suffering from undoubted hereditary unaoundnesses should be allowed to be tho means of annually bringing into the world foals, a large proportion of which in turn develop similar troubles, sometimes in an aggravated degree, and thereby prove a source of loss, instead of profit, to their owners. Another point demanding consideration by horse-owners is the necessity for some method in breeding. At present, as far as light horses are concerned, we have, with the exception of the thoroughbred, no standard classes of horses; and until horsebreeding is conducted on systematic and intelligent lines, New Zealand can never hope to take her place among the nations of tho world as a producer of good horses.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume IX, Issue 1197, 21 February 1902, Page 4
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186Horse-breeding. Pahiatua Herald, Volume IX, Issue 1197, 21 February 1902, Page 4
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