The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . eeding 15 hands 2 in. or 15 hands 3 in. at the outside. Mr. Paning-ton insisted on four tilings in this stallion —goodaction, high courage, and soundness. Many ex-cellent Hunter sires have been even of less staturethan Mr. Parringtons standard. Ferion may begiven as an example, and perhaps it is not toomuch to say that no Hunter sire, thoroughbred orhalf-bred, ever sired such a large proportion ofgood horses as he did. He filled Cleveland withgood horses and with money, for no matter whatkind of mare he was mated with, she was prettycertain to b
The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . eeding 15 hands 2 in. or 15 hands 3 in. at the outside. Mr. Paning-ton insisted on four tilings in this stallion —goodaction, high courage, and soundness. Many ex-cellent Hunter sires have been even of less staturethan Mr. Parringtons standard. Ferion may begiven as an example, and perhaps it is not toomuch to say that no Hunter sire, thoroughbred orhalf-bred, ever sired such a large proportion ofgood horses as he did. He filled Cleveland withgood horses and with money, for no matter whatkind of mare he was mated with, she was prettycertain to breed a good-looking, saleable horseto the good little son of Catton and the Dario-letta. And Perion was under 15 hands, in spiteof which he ran second in the Derby after run-ning to the top of the hill in some fifteen orsixteen false starts. He was a highcouraged,even a hot-tempered horse, and beautifully puttogether. In some seasons he had as many as 250mares, and only a very small number of thembirren. Cleveland was full of good, powerful x. Tha Riding Pony shown above is the [Gelding Sequence, winner of First Prize in tha Clas3 for Folo and Riding PonyMares or Geldings, foaled in 1902 or 1903, not exceeding 142 hands, at the Royal Agricultural Societys Show atLincoln this year. It was foaled in 1902, and was exhibited by Mr, O. T. Price, Brockenhurst, Hants. Sir Walter Calverley. SIR WALTER CALVERLEY, who lived somehundred years later than Blundeville, has anentry in his Note Book bearing date, January 15,1670, in which he says that wnen he wanted hiscoach he horsed it with the lighter mears (mares)used on his farm. It is very probable thatmare3 like Sir Walter Calverleys lighted maresformed the foundation of all our modern lightbreeds, and that our ancestors simply bredfor this foundation, crossing the lighter mareswith horses of Eastern blood according to theirrequirements. The country had been, compara-tively speaking, settled for nearly twenty yearswhen Sir Walter Calv
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