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WARM BLOOD THE SAVING FACTOR The following OXtiiuit ntnu i HHCI n int KP KPrimto rimto Globe received from Bordeaux France tell a story of the endurance and the necessity of thoroughbred blood that can never be put aside where it is sought to make horse breeding a suc ¬ cess cessJust Just a line to tell you that so far as horses go the halfbred Is the hero of the big war I got 3250 froin Kentucky and they have made good at the front In Paris a couple of weeks ago I saw a horse which belonged to the only man in Vou Klucks right wing who got close enough to Paris to he arrested This horse is 1512 hands and eight years old He Is fat now and weighs about 1010 pounds As near as 1 can figure he is about seveneighths thoroughbred In one way and another I have handled 30000 horses so far from extra heavy artillery to the machine gun type and the halfbred beats them all It is too bad that there are so few of them in America and so few old enough in Canada They will need thousands here to build up their regiments even after peace has been declared declaredBuenos Buenos Aires is sending 25000 head to Frencli Atlantic ports They are a shifty lot I have looked over about 4000 of them They are quarter and half thoroughbred They are smaller than our Canadian halfbrc s They ship well and whereas grade Shires and Porciierons show a loss of from eight to twelve per cent on a twelveday trip from New York these halfbred dont lose one per cent by death In the sixweek trip from South America The halfbred can rough it at the front just as well as lie roughs it on the ocean oceanFrances Frances cavalry are in grand shape now The trench lighting gave them n chance to recuperate and they needed it You and I know what the gameness of the thoroughbred means Now I will tell you something and I have the photos to prive It When they unsaddled some of the half and thrce uarter breds after the retreat from Mons the hair hide and flesh canie off with the saddle Some of these horses had made thirtyone miles on that last day in that condition and with 2SS pounds up upEveryone Everyone should use all his influence to help every race meeting In Canada at this time of trial for the British race nnd their brave ally France never had a truer friend than the thoroughbred
