. Riding and driving. e studs of their day. I*or more than one hundred years no desert-bred stallion has had any marked influence uponthe race-horse directly through a thoroughbredmare. In the first decade of the last century abarb stallion bred to a barb mare producedSultana, who brought forth the granddam ofBcrthune to Sir Archy. Bcrthune was muchsought after as a sire for riding-horses; besidesthis barb blood he had strains of Diomed and ofSaltram in his veins, all of which were desirablefor saddle-horses. Breeds of animals deteriorate rapidly throughlack of nourishment and from in-and-in b
. Riding and driving. e studs of their day. I*or more than one hundred years no desert-bred stallion has had any marked influence uponthe race-horse directly through a thoroughbredmare. In the first decade of the last century abarb stallion bred to a barb mare producedSultana, who brought forth the granddam ofBcrthune to Sir Archy. Bcrthune was muchsought after as a sire for riding-horses; besidesthis barb blood he had strains of Diomed and ofSaltram in his veins, all of which were desirablefor saddle-horses. Breeds of animals deteriorate rapidly throughlack of nourishment and from in-and-in is questionable whether a degenerate race maybe restored, within measurable time, by the useof any appreciable amount of its own blood;it is certainly bad policy to found a breed uponpoor stock. The better plan would be to formthe desired t)pe from new strains. One hundredyears ago Lewis and Clark found upon the plainsof the Northwest horses of an excellent race,lofty, elegantly formed, and durable, but one. FiG. 6. — NORWcoiAN riur^u oiALLnji^
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