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CARE OF THE STALLION IN SERVICE. An item of stud news which cannot fail to interest many is that Mr. Ruchanans beautiful mare Lady .less, by Ayrshire out of Ardmore, by i.alliuule. her clam The sleeping Beauty, by Been Battle, has foaled a fine celt by Prince Palatine. I have already sc en one good Prince Palatine colt foal this season, and such early events are of good augury for the future of the f n imias son of Persimmon, which at the OVtoel of 1 is stud career was not so successful as might have been reasonably hoped. It is a familiar story now That Bnndridge, whtin limited to u comparatively few marc-, had a p.or average of foals, but When the number of mares was more than doubled the- percentage of foals became a good one indeed. It is difficult, if not impossible, to account for this phenomena, but I may mention a case within my knowledge of a Kings Premium stallion which •■ over KM mares during his travels la -: season. His owner has eleven mares of his own, and scrupulously never troubled the iiorse with them until Saturday afti moons, When the weeks traveling and its couseqt.eat duties had been accomplished. It is a fact, however, that each one of the-se eleven mares is in foal. What commentary to pass ien this I do not know, but the facts are indisputable. No doubt the life of a traveling stallion is much healthier than that of one which re-mains all the season at home. The parti ni. r one 1 have iu mind did all his traveling n read, his attendant rieliog a pony ami leading him. This in itself is a great point tee the food; but not every heerse will go kinelly with a pony, and a man cannot be- expected to walk with him the necessary distances, nor would ii be reasonable to tire tie- here- by making him carry his man. Thus railway Journeys are apt to become necessary. I remember seeing a more primitive system adopted with ohl Brayley, a food Prince Charlie horse, which need to travel in Sussex. Be w.,s owned by an American veterinary surgeon, who need ti tie- him to the tail of his pony-trap, behind which the ohl horse trotted wit licit t any trouble whatever, and the- exere-ise kept him in ran condition. If we could only bring ourselves tee consider valuable stallions as of no more- account than a casus] purchase- at a country fair r. I Could, doohtleaa, I xer.-is,-d in these simple a 17s t.i much more pi pone than they usually are. Not thai say treatment is really effective with heerses that are constitutionally poor foal getters. ] remember trying all manner of ways with Aurum, which one season used to carry a heavy maa tee see boaada meet, and was otherwise kept as fit as miht be, but it was all of no use. About one mar-- out of five- weald be in teal, ami the- exasperating feature ji it was that the few foala he sired, such as Auriiia. were really goad. When he- was ultimately bought to go back t Australia, by a gentle-man who thought he could improve on Lnglish management, the horse did e-ven worse, and. so far as I can ascertain, never had a single runner there. Such cases are fortunately exceptional, and the appearance of tiu-se- early Prince Palatine foals is a pretty good proof that Mr. Joels good horse- is certainly not going to follow the example of Aurum, but rather that of Sund-ridge an- Cnllinule. the- latter of which became wonde-rfully virile after having bee-n lamentably deficient for some years. Mr. James Buchanan, who, by the way. has sold Tuliibardiue to go to South America — and few more promising stallions have gone- the-re* — will deserves to breed something really in the first class, though in disecarding Palmy Days, in foal to Flotsam, he may have- surrendered his best chance to Lord Dal-tue-iiy. who now owns that good mare. However, a colt by Prince Palatine out of Lady Jess reads lik - business, for Lady Jess, as a yearling, was one of the most charming Allies I ever saw. and she wis a good one too. as they found at Beekhamp-tUi. but her delicacy of temperament was such that never but onc-c- could she make any show on a race- course. Her dam. Ardmore-. is one of the best of the Worksop matroaa, ami has produced numerous winners, of whom one of the most reel ntly notable is Arela. Whether in-breeding to Ayrshire is going to succeed remains to be proved, but, of course, it is pretty e-lose in the ease of this foal of Mr. Buchanans by a grandson of Glare by Ayrshire out of a daughter of Ayrshire, with additional Hampton through Persimmons dam. Bleeding is really a fascinating study. I am anxiously awaiting the results of twee experiments, eene of which will lie a foal by Javelin Whose dam is by Flying Fox out of Cora Vale. by Flying Lemur, brother to Flying Fox; tinel the other will be bv Cornstalk son of Glare out of Floatage, bv The Baft, son of Float, three-parts siste-r to Glare. I know the-re are many whom this mating will interest Intensely, and the mares are due to foal BOOB. In my Judgment Cornstalk. though he- never failed to get winners, has not up to the present been quite so well mated as this, for how is it possible for a combination of the two best daughters of Pootlight to fall?— "The Special Commissioner" in Loudon Sportsman.
