NOTES ON HORSES

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1681, 3 November 1925, Page 8

NOTES ON HORSES

3IARE& IN BREEDING.

Many a good horse's merits as a sire fail 'to get recognised to the extent they should be owiaig ito the fact that he has not been given the chances he deserves, the reason being that a large percentage of his mares have oeen, for some reason or other, unsuitable. Whenever an owner has a mare which he contemplates breeding from he should in the first place thoroughly satisfy himself that she is good enough. She need not necessarily be a show mare (says a writer in The Livestock Journal), but quite irrespective of the breed she may represent, unless she is good enough to breed from, not only in conformation, but both in her walk and trot and is likewise free from any hereditary unsoundness, it is, and particularly so under present day conditions, sheer waste of both money and time to make the attempt. When, however, the owner has sat isfled himself that he has the mare the job of finding a suitable mate is not always easy as it at first appears to be, as no matter what credentials a horse may possess either as a prize winner himself or as a sire of prize winners, unless he suits her in point of merit he should at once be passec >over.