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, . t i .-j REMOUNT PROBLEM EMPHASIZED BY TEXAS MOBILIZATION JL t 4. New York, March II. A. Buck, secretary of the United Hunts Racing Association, who is actively interested in cementing the cordial relations between army others and the turf element, lias made public the following statement: "The movement of 20,000 troops to the Mexican border lias served to intensify interest among army otlicers in the patriotic efforts of prominent breeders of thoroughbreds in this country to improve the type of cavalry horses of the United States Army. Gen. Allen, head of the cavalry bureau of the War Department, Capt. Conrad and; others who arc charged with the duty of supplying1, remounts for the army have been called upon in the last few days to use their utmost endeavors to provide" suitable horses for use in this great movement and they, have been forced almost to exhaust the reserve supply of hors.-s at the remount stations. .".More than !,000 cavalry horses will be used in the mobilization of troops On tlie Mexican border amf this number represents more than a third of the total number of horses now available for cavalry purposes. It will be the first test of the requirements of the army in any emergency since the movement began to place the American cavalry horse oif a plane with the horses of European nations and will serve as a distinct object lesson of the necessity for improving tlie remount of the army. "No matter wht the outcome of tlie movement to Mexico may be there is bound to Ik: a great loss in the number of horses that will take part and it is safe to say, army otlicers assert, that when the troops return to their posts there will be thousands of horses that will never again be serviceable for army purposes.. This will of . course meau tlie depletion of the supply on hand and einphaszcs the importance of tlie efforts of August Belmont and others to improve tlie type of the army remount and create a larger interest among horse .breeders of the United States that ultimately will provide a supply from which tlie army can draw without limit. "It is declared a sad commentary that in this day there has been until recently comparatively little interest among men prominent in Governmental affairs, and particularly in army circles, in tlie quality of horses used by the army, when before tlie birth of the nation and in revolutionary days the horse was regarded by oliicers of the Contiuent-il army and by the British soldiery as the most important part of an armys equipment. "It was August Belmont who recently offered to the War Department the famous thoroughbred stallions Henry of Navarre and Octagon, at the time urging that the Government organize a breeding bureau for supplying tlie army witli remounts. Perry Belmont lias been in frequent conference witli Gen. Leonard Wood, Major Allen and others. Tlie present emergency has directed attention to tlie importance of this movement, and it is admit ted in army circles that those who started the movement were more far-seeing than the directors of the defenses of the nation. .Many otlicers believe that the mobilization of the troops on tlie Mexican border will give an impetus to the proposition to organize a Government breeding bureau and that tlie next Congress will make an appropriation for t Ills purpose." A recent report of Algernon Dalngcrlield. assistant secretary, of the Jockey Club, shows that since l!0t! more titan sixty thoroughbred stallions have been placed in various counties by the Jockev Club without charge, and that as a result, of the mating of more than .5,000 cold blooded mares with these sires there are now more than 1,000 living foals, two-year-olds and three-year-olds recorded In tho books of the breeding bureau. Mr. Daiiigerlield also shows that nearly forty stallions are still doing stud duty in this state and. that breeding bureaus are operating on similar lines elsewhere in the country.
