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OUESTION OVER A BREEDING CONTRACT. Tlie question of whether an owner is bound to keep his contract when he later discovers that a stallion to which he has booked a mare is constitutionally unfit is discussed in an English paper. The case is instanced of an owner who booked a nomination to a certain stallion for next season, aud iu the usual way got his contract. Quite by accldeut he heard that the stallion is a roarer aud, being unwilling to place any of his mares to a "constitutionally unfit horse," he wrote to the owner of the stallion, Informing him that as ho had not notified him of the fact of tlie stallion being a roarer, the contract would have to be nullified. Back came a letter from tlie owner of the stallion to the effect that, if Inquiries had been made beforehand in regard lo the stallions fitness, the fact that he "made a very slight noise" would certainly have been mentioned: but that, since tills was omitted, the terms under the agreement would have to be carried out.
