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WELL-DEVELOPED HORSES NECESSARY. Soldier on Crippled Horse far Worse Than One with a Crippled Gun. By F.d Cole. New York. April S3 -"What chance," asked Major Waterbary of the !. s. A. "would ■ Bstdter have with a crippled gun against another soldier well eqaipped with proper and approved arms? Rat a chance. So it is with a horse. A soldier sent to Wl . on a crippled berse is eaadvateal to sending him to the front with a crippled gun." These are prac-tcally idinti-al sentiments with these of Major-General Leeaard Wood, who has advised the Halted States government for the past two years to look after it- remounts asore studiously and to make special arrangements for breeding the proper .sort of horse for war. This 1 abject is being commented upon by some of the leading writers in this country with force 1 1 11" i -deat to attract government attention. George Daley has the following comment in the New York World aa the usefulness .f the thoroagh-lu-ed. with aaatatioaa from General Leonard Wood and Aagast Belmont: "A sernio.i on the economic- importance of the breediag industry in this country and on the value of thoroughbred racing as a moans to that •-nil ooul.J : • .Mitten on the text: " "We. as a people-, have- no more right to put our yaaag men aa an inferior horse than we have to seed them forth with an inferior rifle." "Aagast Behaeat, chairman of the Jo. key Club. gave expresstoa to this thought in reply to a letter fr..m Major Geaeral Leonard Wood, who wrote to express row; at the destruction „f the graiieistan.1 hj iaeeadtery fire at Behaeat Park a few days ago. in the fear that it Might still further interfere with the development of tin- aatae. General Woods Recognition of the Thoroughbred. "hneral Wood has long recognised the outstaml-lag necessity of thoroughbred blood to provide the right type of cavalry remounts and the importance of the race tracks as a leather, ground, lh.it standards may be maintained. He said in his tetter to Mr. Belmont: There- was aever a time in the history of the- country when we were more in ne-eel of tiie right kind of horse for military purposes than at present. These words are woefully tree. Tin- country has literally beea combed for cavalry ami artillery horses suitable- tor export to the Warrlag countries in Barope, and BOW that our need is great, the beat must he male of what is toft. All this is a s..,e! ceauaeatary n the lack of foresight shown in ■. crippling the breeding industry aen ral ye-ars ago that the ..mier is it survived to grew afresh. "Lesson, must in- learned evea throagh the bitterness of unhappy experience ; but a toasoa eeee kerned is not quickly forgotten. It is sate to say that tie- experiences of this war in which we are ■aw Involved, will be a strong brief ",,r r.u-ing in geaeral ami the thoroughbred in particular. Many of o ir young me n may suffer from being mounted on inferior banes, and a real •!. must he found. Thai remedy li.-s in the ibioiii uiaunl of breed-hat along tin- right lims ami the stimulation of an adustry which means so mach to the welfare of a country in peace as well as in war. "Men like Aagast Belmont. U. T. Wilson and John K. Msddea, among others who accepted the conditions as preseated aad m ver wavered in their devotion to a sport anil to an industry, even in the id... kest days, raa now enjoy the rearard which comes from their loyalty. Madden in particular stoeiel to his guns in the face of discouraging cir- rumstaacea and actually let teased the si/.- of his breediag farm and so profited by the panic of those win. sold their toil, in a weak aad falling market or- whs shipped abroad."
