Tt is an ingenious scheme which might be worth investigation. Thi breeders would not lose, for they would get the ordinary market prices just as they have done hitherto and the eventual buyers apparently would profit. The only scufferers would be the ring of middlemen who have established a monopoly and, in but two deals a year, make "huge profits. The middleman never has been. very popular in any connexion. If such 2 scheme proves in all respects to
ious advantage: to racing men, feanbley one can see one. very apart from the possibility of getting their" ponies. cheaper. A club's buying: agent would.: be a member, or a amall committee of members, fully qualified for the purpose, or, equally qualified. The club buying committee of course would do the best for their fellow members, a anxious to retain. lucrative employment, so in either case the selected ponies, taken in bulk, almost cer tainly' would be of much better quality than those ordinarily sent down. We have become accustomed to receiving little group of first quality ponies and several score of hopeless. wrecks.
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