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SUGGESTS GOVERNMENT AID TO BREEDING. In the annual report of the president •• ranadian Tb nmgbbred Horse Society. Lieut.-Col. William Hendrie, the following points are of mm Ii pi .sent interest : "The li-hi horse, thronghoct the country, still continues In demand for driving, riding, and eon; uiercia! purpoFes: and to gel the besl type of these, continued In fusion of thoroughbred blood is becom lng mot and more a recognised necessity. "The poll e j ol the association In riving grants of mone] throaghonl Canada to the different .!_rri cultural abows, iii be con tin m I: and in this m ;„■. Hon I maj add that : •• ia i size, in in- and conformation of the stallion shall ix the points in !„■ Judge I •• ii t Thai -mil stallion si tall stand for public service In the district In which the show is held. ••This i- to encourage the keeping of staUiona in the different dlstrii ••This y-.u- has been Ihe first lit which the Ontario government baa levied a tax m .vjim per day far each racing daj of running meeting-, and a revenue of over 4,000 h i therebj i.as-.-,i Into the govern ment b the clubs conducting running races in On tario. So Car, the Ontario government has shown no disposition to use this I I : i " ■ Interests of horse-breeding In the province: neither have they shown, so far, any desire to f-Veiiise some sopervi s.on over the ciabs conducting such races, their sole effort, so far, being to collect the fee and give nothing in return. The money so collected should lie used for the bonusing of thoroughbred stallions throughout the Province ol Ontario, which stallion- should be for public -erviee at a low fee. not to exceed f 19. Rone, size, conformation and soundness of the stallions should Ik- tir.-t considered, and to earn this bow -thsj should be able to slow a certain proportion of foal- yearly; else they are useless to the comanunity. A few thousand dollars ] en I in this way would do a tremendous lot of good to the horse breeding of this province. "The effect of racing on the thoroughbred has beeu. and Is, exactly the -ami- as its effect on the standard bre d. Racing made and retains the breed. Without running races the Fnglish people would never have had their wonderful thoroughbreds; and without trotting races the American people would never nave • had their magnificent standard-breds. if racing is -topped, fee breeding of horses stops, tor iii,- incentive to breed horses is removed."
