Modern polo . is son Sandiway, out ofthe polo pony mare Cuddington, both breed ponies,and as far as I can hear, the former gets all hisstock of polo height, but it remains to be provedif they will breed first-class performers at the game,although I have no doubt that they will succeed. Other considerations must be taken into account inpony breeding, such as climate, feeding and soil. Apony bred on rough mountains, and forced to get hisliving as he can, without care or shelter, is certain notto grow as big as he would do, if he was broughtup on rich pasture, and given oats from the time hewas a
Modern polo . is son Sandiway, out ofthe polo pony mare Cuddington, both breed ponies,and as far as I can hear, the former gets all hisstock of polo height, but it remains to be provedif they will breed first-class performers at the game,although I have no doubt that they will succeed. Other considerations must be taken into account inpony breeding, such as climate, feeding and soil. Apony bred on rough mountains, and forced to get hisliving as he can, without care or shelter, is certain notto grow as big as he would do, if he was broughtup on rich pasture, and given oats from the time hewas a yearling. The real difficulty about pony breeding is that we EXPERIENCES OF BREEDERS. 271 want to breed a pony as near as possible. [ too small for polo, and is too big, so the marginof height is practically only two inches, a considerationthat does not come into the calculations of the breederof any other kind of stock. At present the difficultiesseem great; but by the light of experience, and. Fig. 100.—Champion Sire Rosewater, late Johnnie Day. through the valuable information we hope to gainthrough the Society, these difficulties may vanish in afew years, and I shall hope to see a breed of poloponies spring up that will reproduce themselves assurely as does the Thorough-bred, the Shire horse, orthe Suffolk. Of one thing I am sure, and that is that we cannotexpect to get a really good breed of riding and polo 272 POLO PONY BREEDING. [Chap. XI. ponies unless we breed on both sides from riding must be no admixture of any of the harnessbreeds, such as the Hackney, or of any of the varieties ofthe hairy-heeled cob. Although there may have beensome good polo ponies owing part of their origin to oneor other of these strains, I am sure they were theexceptions, and not the rule. As I have already said,when buying a raw young pony, I always like to gethim if possible, at least three parts clean bred, andthis of course means that at least three quarters o
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