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GOVERNMENTS ATTITUDE CRITICISED No more pertinent observation respecting one of the disastrous effects of the recent pernicious legisla ¬ tion rippling the horse breeding industry was ex ¬ pressed at the recent National Horse Show than tliat by MajorGeneral Leonard Wood when he remarked after the failure of the Intted States Army tram lo capture ope f the international v nts Not enough Viicoiiragiiuent has been given by the govern ¬ ment to improve the breed of officers hordes This show with the defeats tlny have suffered in it has IKMII of lionrlit to officers of the United States Army Whith is itorffctly true Stamp out the thorough bred which other nations regard sis u paramount necessity for the drvjIopmpnt of firstclass army horws and deterioration with defeat becomes an unavoidable sequence To the discredit of the an thoritiepithe only efforts toward u rational and iirac tical endeavor toward the improvement of the1 breed of horses in this country have been initiated through the breeding bureau of the Jockey Club together with the otinporl accorded b private enterprise The distribution of fifty tlioriMighbroil horses of th lyp of Miislrrmaii by Hustings donated by thf iiairiuaii of tin Jockey Club August llm iil l thf Canadian National Bunail of Breeding which TPCMitly captjired first prize nt the National Hnrse Show wpultl K far to improve Hie breed of army horses in tirt and enable the Knifed States to take in future international a juore prominent position
