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I , r v : . 1 1 1 i - t j i s j i r e e e 0 DECLARES MODERN HORSES ARE BEST. The "Bloodstock Breeders Review" for October contains an Interesting chat with Sir John Robinson, one- of Englands lending breeders. Sir John believes in giving foals and yearlings plenty of air and free- lom. and savs fresh air is a cure for most of the ills to which horseflesh is heir. "Of course." he remarked, "if yearlings are cooped up they will grow better for a time, but they are bound to suffer from sueh treatment in Hie long run. They become soft and cloggy, and stop growing sooner than they should do." Until within six weeks of the Hon- enster sales the Worksop Manor yearlings are out day and night, and then after they are "taken up " are allowed to be in the paddock for three or four hours each day in addition to having daily walking exercise for two hours. He added that there was no doubt that the few days yearlings were at Hon-? caster, confined in boxes fourteen feet square, dm them a lot of harm. In Sir Johns opinion English ri.ee horses of the present day are superior to those Of 30 or 40 years ago. the greatest advance perhaps being made during the past ten years. Fewer bad horses and cripples are bred, and a much greater proportion of the yearlings now sold at Doncaster see a race course than was the case in the earlier day. He attributes the improvement in this direc-1 tion to more natural methods being adopted in the rearing of bloodstock. Yearlings are no longer sent into the ring as fat as bullocks, their preparation for sale- lieing conducted on common-sense lines. During the past eleven years the 179 yearlings sent from Worksop Manor have averaged 820 guineas, The "fat" yearling may have gone out of favor in Finland, hilt it is not so in Australia, and sellers here see to it that buyers get plenty of meat for their tnonev. In most cases they would probably have difficulty in disposing of their stock on ad-o vantageous terms if they failed to adopt that course. At different times I have heard leading owners and trainers condemn the practice, but when it came to buying, they, like ever.vlx.dy else, wanted the sleek youngsters, not those sent up in anything approach-in- "the rough."— Pilot in Sydney Referee.
