. The harness horse . .- ^ >.? A, 1. > iiiiii 25 costing no more, has the further value towhich the foreign purchaser with his thriftyinstincts is fully alive ; the mare is used tobreed from when her career of active serviceis at an end, whereas the value of thegelding when past work is neither more norless than that the knacker is pleased to setupon his carcase. PREJUDICE AGAINST MARES. There has long been a strong prejudice inEngland against mares for harness, the resultbeing that mares could be purchased at alower price than geldings ; a fact, in con-junction with the advantage alread

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. The harness horse . .- ^ >.? A, 1. > iiiiii 25 costing no more, has the further value towhich the foreign purchaser with his thriftyinstincts is fully alive ; the mare is used tobreed from when her career of active serviceis at an end, whereas the value of thegelding when past work is neither more norless than that the knacker is pleased to setupon his carcase. PREJUDICE AGAINST MARES. There has long been a strong prejudice inEngland against mares for harness, the resultbeing that mares could be purchased at alower price than geldings ; a fact, in con-junction with the advantage already indicated,which has not been without its influence onthe Continental buyer. From the earlier part of the nineteenthcentury, when, as The Druid tells us, theNorfolk Hackney had an almost Europeanreputation, horses of this breed have beenin keen demand on the Continent, moreespecially among the breeders of France andOldenbourg. Within the last thirty years or more theeffect of the Continental demand for roadsterbree

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