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GOVSHKMEKT STUDS IN GEEMANY It may be news to those who are interested in encouraging in America tho breed of race horses to learn that there are seventeen government studs in Germany At the Graditz Stud the production of thoroughbreds Is the chief occupation At all the others halfbreed are the main concern The Trak licnen Stud furnishes most of the Itest halfbreeds that are drafted into the German army anil from this stud also have come about 3001 stallions which are doing ilnty throughout the kingdom It is a fad of the German emperor to supply his cavalry regiments with horses of one color The American horse Atnorlens once known here as Rev del Ca rciles is one of the many stallions now at Trakhenen The iisiuag r of tile stud Is Herr von Oettincen who has recently written a book called Horse Breeding in Theory and in Practice lie was once a ssicess ful crosscountry rider and on one of many journeys on horseback through Russia he saw a chance to l ur n In Germany from the Russian Russiangovernment government for 70000
